There are several USB and firewire converters out there. They work with varying degree of success. In general the USB to serial converter work the best, the firewire to SCSI converter are so so, and the USB to SCSI converter are marginal at best. Connecting SCSI scanners to an iMac up a USB converter is probably the most problematic.
All the new iMacs come with an internal modem so you probably don't need the old external modem. The firewire to SCSI interface works o.k. with a Zip drive, USB to SCSI with a Zip drive is cheaper but it is more problematic (appears to more prone to problems with large file 20MB+ transfers). I would think that the SCSI CD burner would not work very well with either type of converter but that is just a guess. The serial printer and camera would probably be limited by driver software compatibility. With the camera you could use a USB compact flash/pmcia/stick reader, they are cheap and work great. The printer will probably be o.k. with OS 9 but not with OS X. Software is a whole other kettle of fish. In general most 68K software will work under OS 9. There are many many many more compatibility problems using the classic panel via OS X. There are some obvious exceptions - software that is not 32 bit clean won't work, nor will software that REQUIRES 16 or 2 color screen depths. Some software will only work in 256 color modes but the software is NOT smart enough to recognize this, so you need to manually change the color depth. There is a freeware Control Panel that can be used to emulate a 68K FPU that is required for some software, it works but there is a speed penalty (general you still come out faster, faster iMac processor speed more than offsets the slow emulation speed). And some older 68K still won't work for unknown reasons (Lotus 123 for Macintosh is a prime example). -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
