trying to ressurect a Blue and White G3 (tale of woe with no happy ending yet)

[Art Newman]

Fellow MacHackers,

Ken Prager (Hughes) used to call these situations a 'recursive hell.'

To scan a bunch of 35mm slides and negatives, I bought a Nikon LS4000-ED - supposed to be a great scanner. Okay, they haven't been made for so many years that Nikon stopped supporting them long ago. But, there are software that will operate the scanner on modern computers (SilverFast 9). 

Great! But...the software maker said that to be able to operate the scanner fully, I have to upgrade the scanner firmware, and he graciously sent me updaters for both Mac and Windows. The scanner uses an IEEE 1394 connection. I don't have a Windows box that has one of those.

I've hooked up the scanner to my Mac (Mac Studio M1) via 3 conversion cables that combined, convert the IEEE 1394 to Thunderbolt. 

Great! But...the Mac firmware updater requires a 68000 chip (or emulator?) to run. And just my luck, my B&W G3 won't boot anymore.

I've tried to run the updater in Crossover (Wine under the hood) but it doesn't do anything.

I've spent hours trying to resurrect the G3, but it won't even boot off a 10.1 startup CD (external CD drive).

Before I spend more time and money on this, I am asking for the collective wisdom of the MacHacker crowd. What say you?

[Art Newman]

BTW, I neglected to say who this is...

Art Newman (Hughes 1984 - Raytheon 2022)

[Allison Sheridan]

VueScan for the win:

Allison

On Jan 4, 2025, at 3:02 PM, Art Newman <exra...@gmail.com> wrote:



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[Tim McCoy]

Very nice Al!  Even including the Link about his hardware. I've been using Vuescan for decades. Works great for my ancient Epson Perfection U636 Flatbed scanner (my goto device) and my New Epson 3850 Printer/scanner - I use Vuescan for both. I know I did not pay $150 dollars for it way back when, but I have been upgraded. free, all these years.

On Jan 4, 2025, at 4:07 PM, Allison Sheridan <all...@podfeet.com> wrote:

VueScan for the win:

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[LINDA BERTORELLO]

The scanner sounds like a good suggestion. But if all else fails, I have a working PowerMac G3 desktop (233 MHz), currently running OS 9.2.2.  We upgraded to 64MB RAM and expansion card with 3 USB + 2 Firewire 400 ports.

Contact me for more info if interested.

Linda Bertorello (Hughes 1975-1995)

On Jan 4, 2025, at 5:49 PM, Tim McCoy <mcco...@cox.net> wrote:

Very nice Al!  Even including the Link about his hardware. I've been using Vuescan for decades. Works great for my ancient Epson Perfection U636 Flatbed scanner (my goto device) and my New Epson 3850 Printer/scanner - I use Vuescan for both. I know I did not pay $150 dollars for it way back when, but I have been upgraded. free, all these years.

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[Allison Sheridan]

Fun story for everyone here that is about Macs and Ken Prager. When. I ran Engineering, Ken convinced me that he needed not one, but two 30" Apple Cinema Displays. I priced them out $3300 each!). We bought them for him through the company.

A few months later I was going to buy a $50 iTunes gift card for a friend for his birthday. When I went to check out, it said I would get free shipping. I was confused - it was an electronic gift card!

And then I noticed the total. It was $6650! I had priced it out in my personal account...

Allison