Old Nikon LS2000 Scanner With Mac?
 

Just a shot in the dark here . . . I found an old Nikon LS2000 negative scanner in my closet. I vaguely remember someone giving it to me a long time ago.

I don't have a desktop Windows PC that I can install the Nikon software on and the SCSI interface card in. So if this thing is going to work, it needs to work on a Mac Mini running OS X 10.4 and USB.

I did a bit of searching and there appears to be OS X 10.4 friendly open-source scanner software that claims to support the LS2000. But I haven't found a "tried and true" way to adapter SCSI to USB. There are SCSI-USB adapters, but I've not found reports of any working with a scanner.

Anyone just happen to know the answer?

This is not the highest-priority project - half an hour ago I didn't even know I had the thing, and yet life was nevertheless worth living - but if there is a simple enough solution, I'd give it a shot.

I may have a couple of few SCSI to USB adaptors floating around. Your welcome to them.

But FWIW scanners were the one thing that caused absolute mayhem in SCSI chains.

Even under ideal circumstances they were temperamental