Speaking of old technology, when we moved I appear to have misplaced the SCSI plug adapter I was using to hook my seen-better-days el cheapo scanner to my workstation, rendering it inutile for the nonce. I have a cool but also ancient PCMCIA-to-SCSI adapter but there appear to be no OS X drivers for it.

No I haven’t tried VPC or Classic to see if that would work.

The pisser is I actually KNOW the adapter works with my old Wallstreets, now decapitated and gutless in the closet. Yeesh.

Time to look at the multifunction doohickeys, I think. Hmm, let’s see now… wifi + ethernet + fax + sharing, I think. I’d like to plug into a phone jack, turn it on, and be able to fax out, receive, print, or scan to NAS over the air. That shouldn’t run me more than… what, about twenty bucks, these days, right?

After much research I have found it seems that Cingular discontinued the availability of CSD in December 2005, rendering my phone’s built in faxing capacity useless. Let’s hear it for feature contraction!