So I haven't talked about this much due to wagecage and online desolation leaving a negative effect on me, but I managed to obtain a PC-98 era scanner. I have unfortunately not had a place to set it up yet, and while laptops usually are good substitutes for dragging out an entire desktop for one thing the PC-98 laptops do not use a normal parallel/serial port, but some mini version. This of course is a holdover from the earlier "smaller" laptops, and it's well known that Japanese computer makers were snorting some good shit.

As it turns out, with the right words on YAJ you can source out a printer and serial cable. I have done so, and will be trying to connect stuff to my 98note. I will also be seeing if I can find a Ethernet adapter for mine so I can copy files over the network easily, and the PC-98 is picky about what Ethernet cards work. PC-98 windows 98 has few drivers, and you have to use either specific ones or drivers built into the OS.