> The software that drives these scanners is compiled for 32bit architecture and hasn’t been updated in well over 10 years
Might be worth it to try using Wine to run the windows software if they have windows drivers. Wine should run on mac if that's your poison.
> It seems the Firewire ports on these things start to go bad after about a decade. If that happens you’re looking at a 3,000 Euro repair bill
A soldering iron is cheap, and so are firewire ports on digikey. I doubt they invented their own proprietary firewire connection. Ferrari's use volvo parts, you can probably fix it for like $3.
Might be worth it to try using Wine to run the windows software if they have windows drivers. Wine should run on mac if that's your poison.
> It seems the Firewire ports on these things start to go bad after about a decade. If that happens you’re looking at a 3,000 Euro repair bill
A soldering iron is cheap, and so are firewire ports on digikey. I doubt they invented their own proprietary firewire connection. Ferrari's use volvo parts, you can probably fix it for like $3.