I certainly don't have the resources. Believe it or not, I've been using an old clunker my nephew sent me back in 2013. To be honest, it would have taken me much longer to compile those few hundred pages of "Dead End" without it. As you may have witnessed from The H Files, the old machine also added a whole new dimension to my daily life ...
I had installed a $20 250 GB hard-drive on it, and put Linux on it. It was great to have access to all that free software. I am a Linux head. I still have my Gangster Edition of XP on the ancient hard-drive (strange how the new one fried before the old one ... This leads me to wonder if it is in the wiring). The poor old beast is in its sensitive overtime stage, so every time I open her up, I risk another part kicking the bucket.
It's cool though, hanging from a thread. The hard-ware that I am drawn to is getting less and less expensive by the year. Now the 250 GB drives are down to $16 (you just need an SATA to IDE adapter for like $4). The problem now is, even when I order another one I would have to transfer the dinosaur to an Internet connection, since, even though I burned Linux Mint 17 xfce edition to a DVD, the installation process, when it comes to grabbing my favorite programs/software, is very tedious with a direct connection to the Internet. It's do-able with USB flash-drive and library and tar files, but ... eh, why bother, right?
Uh-oh, I have some typing today. I better stay focused.
As far as a scanner, you might experience a light-bulb in a cloud above your head A-HA eureka moment when you hear about this Bonaventure character. Mind you, I am no saint. You know I am a sinning philosopher like Ikkyu, and, like your namesake, I am a madman when I am drunk ... but there is this idea forming about the bulk of my notebooks which have become a kind of anchor to me anyway.
See
bhikkhus