Anyone have experience with Minolta MS6000 SCSI Fiche scanners?

[hatzie]

I have 1994-2006 GM light truck parts catalogs on Microfiche paks. Just the CK 1500-3500 models IIRC.
Possibly the G series vans as well but I can't guarantee that as I haven't looked at all of the fiches. It's the rest of the T400 trucks that I don't have scans of and most of the T800's.

I may be able to get my grubby paws on an ancient Minolta MS6000 fiche reader & SCSI fiche-microfilm scanner locally. I bought a NOS Bell and Howell unit with not 0 hours on it that I use to read the films myself. My main interest is the fact that it's a scanner that could be used to make PDF copies of these catalogs.

Has anyone got experience with the Minolta MS6000 from College, University, or work? Or personal experience...

[Second Series]

I do not have any experience with this, but I did a search and found it might work on Win XP. https://www.microfilmworld.com/minol...0obsolete.aspx
Maybe Win 7. https://www.dyxum.com/dforum/how-to-...321_page6.html

[hatzie]

I found both of those.
A failed power supply doesn't scare me. I just fixed a Tek 2465A with a bad power supply, a raft of dead capacitors and some other dead parts. As long as the magic smoke stays inside the proprietary chips I can fix everything else. If I get lucky I can find the proprietary parts.