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joseph marty <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 18 Aug 2002 15:51:44 -0400
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I use www.drivers.com to find old drivers, but there are other such sites which I'm sure other contributors will mention.  Otherwise, since scanners are so cheap, and so much better than the one you describe, you might suggest your customer invest $60 in a brand new one, or even less off ebay.

>A customer has an old W95b 8215 Pavilion with a ScanTak SF-600C scanner
>attached to an ISA card.  The ISA card is a 'SPOT' brand (apparently long
>defunct) and is labelled 'scanner interface'.
>
>The Pavilions' hard drive was clapped out and unrecoverable, and I've
>programmed a new drive, using her HP recovery CD.
>
>However, the scanner wasn't part of the original equipment, so it didn't get
>re-installed off the CD, along with her sound, gfx and modem cards.
>
>Can anyone help with a driver or installer for the 'scanner interface' card?
>I've managed to download several drivers for the scanner itself, but without
>the ISA card being recognised, there's no way the scanner is going to run. I
>understand from the scanner manual that the interface setup originally came
>on a diskette.
>
>TIA
>
>Ian Porter
>Computer Guys Inc.
>Arrowtown
>New Zealand
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