Need film/slide scanner for PM 7600

I want a film/slide scanner to digitally capture the images from my zillions of slides and negatives. Cost, as usual, is a problem. I was thinking that rather than buying a low end 1800 DPI piece of crap to team with the G5, maybe I could get a good one (used/reconditioned) with SCSI and team it with one of my PM 7600s. Can anyone suggest a source for this, besides eBay?
TIA
Kathi

Thanks everybody!
Jeff--yes, lucky me, I got my Christmas wish of a PowerMac G5. Just as the PPC chip was breathing its last, with the dual-core rendition (2.0 GHz). Turned out that my particular chip was bad, and it took more than a month of struggling with all kinds of crazy behavior to drill down to that. I was sure glad I had my 7600s during that time. And I still enjoy the original one, though its twin isn't getting much use now. I swapped the processors so that the one with the extra RAM and added storage now also has the faster (233 mHz) processor. I scored an old 17" AppleVision CRT from the office to run with the G5 so the 7600 could have its MultiSync 70 back, and I also got a very nice 15" or so Sony display from work that runs with the twin. Which means that at long last I put my two 13" Apple RGB displays out with the trash a few weeks ago. And I upgraded both 7600s to OS 9.1, which is as far as they'll go, I guess, without processor upgrades. That was really my main reason for wanting the G5--the OS X functionality, more than pure performance issues. There are too many things that don't work in Classic nowadays. Of course the G5 is much faster, but not so much faster that I want to scream every time I use the 7600. The three machines are happily networked via router.
I always forget about all the stuff that offices dump even though I've been a more-than-occasional beneficiary of the process. Thanks for reminding me. I'll have to ask our IT guy if he knows of any outlets around here. Scouring thrift shops is too big a mission for my overworked/lazy self at this point
Grant--thanks for the specs. I haven't looked at the current UMAX flatbed products because I already have a UMAX 1220S. I figured a slide attachment for it might turn up on eBay one day but I don't have the patience for that. It doesn't look as though any of their current slide/film holders would work with the 1220S, and even if they did still have something for my model, the resolution would be kind of low for 35mm anyway.
Jim--thanks for the warning!! I'm sorry you had such a hassle with that Nikon scanner.
Tom, your Polaroid scanner sounds great. I can't find any current Polaroid film scanners on their Web site, they only list Nikon and Microtek (all quite pricey). Maybe I can find a used one like yours. Or maybe I really don't need more than 1800 DPI and I should just buy the UMAX PowerLook 180... Probably will never do much printing with my old images, more likely just digital display, but I'm not positive about that, and I'd like to be able to throw out all those slides without sweating when the conversions are done.

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