| From: | Mick Foster |
| Date: | 28 Oct 2000 at 05:14:38 |
| Subject: | Re: Our favourite company :-) |
Hi Sheila,
[snip]
>
> I have a similar problem with an ancient Epson GT5000 parallel port
scanner.
> Works perfectly well with an ASDG cable on my Amiga but both my Athlon 600
> PC and my laptop refuse to recognise it with a bidirectional printer cable
> and both Windows 95 and Windows 98. Epson see no reason why it will not
> work and no one can explain why the Pc for which designed in the first
place
> does not knows it is attached to it. If you find an answer please let me
> know. It is a bore having to scan on the Amiga and transfer the files but
do
> not see the point of getting a new scanner when the one I have is
perfectly
> adequate. And no Mick, usb was not available when I bought it and it is
not
> a SCSI scanner.
>
Going seriously OT here... Have you got the parallel settings sorted out in
the BIOS? If you have any queries on this score mail me off list with your
details and I'll put 20 years of experience to the test. I love a
challenge... :-)
Kind Regards,
Mick.
It would seem to me that the powers that be
Keep themselves in splendour and security
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