Mustek A3 scanner with Macbook?

Hi all,
I've just bought a Mustek A3 SP scanner from ebay and have no idea how to connect it my Macbook (with Snow Leopard). There's an SCSI connector. Is there a cable I can buy to connect it via firewire or USB and will I need a driver from somewhere? It says that it's Mac compatible but obviously not Mac + idiot compatible.
Thanks
Gary

Joeuu: SCSI and parallel are not the same thing at all, though old PC parallel printers often used the same Centronics connector as SCSI devices for the Mac, and a fair number of people in the old days mistakenly tried to connect their PC printers to Macs using SCSI cables and were mystified when it didn't work.
Garyf111: To use that scanner, you would need a SCSI-to-FireWire adapter like this:
http://macgurus.com/productpages/scsi/FR1SX.php
Then you'd also need to check the supported scanners list for Hamrick Software's VueScan driver and see whether your scanner model is listed. If it is, you'll need to buy VueScan:
http://www.hamrick.com/vuescan/vuescan.htm#mustek
http://www.hamrick.com/
This combination, if your scanner is supported at all, will cost you more than twice as much as any of a dozen current, inexpensive scanners that would all outperform your very old Mustek scanner. Don't waste your time or money trying to get that antique working with your MBP — it will cost you a lot of money and time to get it working, and then it will disappoint you badly.

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