I have a Mac Classic given to me by my uncle. Last I checked (a few years ago) it booted up just fine. I need to crack it open before trying again because I’m afraid of leaky caps or batteries. Just need to find the time.
And the access to information -- trying to find specs and API calls for these devices when they were current was a nightmare.
Film photography revival goes full swing, I hope there will be new good film scanners with MF format support. Nikon CoolScan 9000 costs unreasonable money, if you factor in lamp which can burn-out and overall age of the machine. And drivers are pain in the ass on modern systems, though, again, vueScan supports it. But ICE (dust removal) works better in Nikon software.
In the late 80s as a kid I sometimes came across the Swedish version of Macworld.
Unlike the US original edition I think they mostly catered to people working in print layout/DTP. They were casually reviewing all kinds of exciting things costing like $10-50k in today's money. Things like flatbad scanners were super expensive. The concept of 24-bit color was strangely exciting, seemingly bordering on alien tech.
It was like a different world compared to the kind of home computing HW I was using. Even the magazine was a lot more beautiful than anything else I had seen.
I remember there were free TWAIN hosts that allowed you to use scanner plugins without Photoshop. Could be worth a look.
Also, TWAIN is not Windows-specific! It is (was?) supported on Windows, Linux and macOS. It was not invented by MS or Adobe, but by working group where MS and Adobe doesn't present!
