The USB socket (both 1.1 and 2.0) should be standard on the computer side,
don't know if the early laptops are different. The plug to the camera is now
also a standard mini-USB (in the pass some Olympus has non-standard mini-USB
socket) for most if not all camera manufacturers.
The Olympus software working or not I think is depends on the OS, 98SE or
above should be ok, but a 166MHz CPU could be too slow. I upgraded to 3.2GHz
due to the high number of editing job required since shooting digital. I
shoot at least 5 times more than before even finally I may get the same
number of keepers and I have to check and compare one by one to screen out
the similar but poorer images. With slide I won't scan all the frames and
screening is done before shooting.
C.H.Ling
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Swale" <bj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> No, it's because I'm not sure that my laptop is compatible with the
> specifications set out by Olympus, and as far as I can see the USB ports
> on
> the laptop are different from that on the connection cable that comes with
> the
> E-1.
>
> Olympus specifies that the computer processor must be a Pentium 2 and I'm
> not at all sure that the laptop has this. "My computer" sheds no light on
> this.
>
> Aida32 says the CPU is a mobile Intel Pentium MMX 166 Mhz. That's all.
>
> I don't want to risk damaging the camera software by making an
> inappropriate connection. This would void the camera guarantee.
>
> I know that my Pentium 1 133hz, W'95 desktop machine is totally out of
> their specifications except for RAM which I have about as large as it will
> stand..
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