I finally managed to procure a film scanner to convert boxes of slide and negatives into something more useful, but of course on my budget, the complete kits were unattainable (you can find Nikon Coolscan LS-2000 kits, complete with original box for as little as $250: they were $2000 new), so I have just the scanner, no cables. You’d think an UltraSCSI cable would be fairly easy to locate, but I haven’t found one for less than $25 at a specialty website and one for $9 on eBay.
This unit lacks the multi-slide adapter (they’ll need to be fed in one at a time) or the negative carrier, so I’ll be pulling this together well into the new year.
And this doesn’t even get into drivers or scanner software . . . .