>Hi Bruce,
>
>I'll give this a shot...
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>I would say that *normally* you would need a SCSI adapter card. On my machines I have ADAPTEC AHA-2940UW for PCI.
>
>BUT... I also have a small and dinky scanner which hooks up to the parallel port BUT it is described in the system as a "MicroTek SimpleSCSI parallel port adapter" and it has a "SCSI ID" which must be set.
>
>So my take would be: if it says it hooks iup to a parallel port you DO NOT need a SCSI adapter, but under any other circumstance, you would.
>
>good luck (with this not-that-helpful (guesswork only) info,

Thanks, Jim, that sounds about right...I did see the ads for the "cheaper" port scanners, but we want something a little more sophisticated, I think, and all those seemed to be "scuzzies"...