James Bradley wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 JB> 04-30-05  12:06, Roy J. Tellason told All about interesting junk 

 JB>  How do, Roy?

 RJT> The big flatbed scanner is interesting too,  it has both 50-
 RJT> pin and 25-pin SCSI connectors on the back,  and a DB15 
 RJT> (mini,  like VGA) connector that says something about 
 RJT> "transparency",  presumably for some sort of an accessory 
 RJT> that I don't have.  It's a "Relisys",  a brand I'm not 
 RJT> familiar with offhand.

 JB> If it's anything like the HP here, the "transparency" connector
 JB> powers a halogen bulb, and disconnects the bottom lighting. The
 JB> attachment has a receptacle for 35mm negatives, or slides which is
 JB> then read by the usual means. 

 JB> I picked up an HP adapter for mine, but it was a later model with a
 JB> mini-DIN, where the scanner takes a normal size. Maybe one day...
 JB> Knowing HP, it likely won't be a straight-through pin number
 JB> adapter that will work, but it shouldn't be too hard to find the
 JB> juice.

I haven't even tried the scanner to see if it works or not yet,  and don't
have much in the way of slides (if any),  so I'm not gonna worry about it. 
:-)

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