Sometimes the drivers can give a problem if they are not updated by the
manufacturers. There are a couple of 3rd party sites that provide
drivers when there is a problem. I apologize I have misplaced their
URLs though.
Bob
On Apr 21, 2006, at 14:30, Piers Hemy wrote:
>
> Same her, Walt. But I find a USB hub works wonders (get a powered
> hub) and
> USB-to-parallel adaptors are not hard to find. Did you notice the
> serial
> port has gone AWOL too? You can get a USB adaptor for that too.
>
> Walther? PPK???
>
> --
> Piers
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf
> Of Walt Wayman
> Sent: 21 April 2006 19:10
> To: OM List
> Subject: [OM] One thing done, another begun
>
> If the people who make cars were as incompetent as the ones who build
> computers, the roads would be clogged with horse shit, because we'd
> all have
> a couple in the back yard -- horses, not computers. New, gee-whiz
> super
> computer, and no f***ing parallel port! Looks like I'm behind the
> times.
> Again. Am I the only one with still working, perfectly good old
> printers?
> And only two USB ports in the back? That's enough for mouse and
> keyboard,
> but what about Epson and Minolta scanners and a pair of Epson printers,
> particularly the 2200, all of which need these things? I can plug the
> E-1
> or E-330, et al, into the front when I need to update the firmware
> every
> once in a blue moon, but I don't want to have to play musical ports
> with all
> the other stuff that's used regularly.
>
> Fortunately, since I told them to hold the TV card -- who the hell
> watches
> TV on a computer anyway? -- there's a couple of open expansion slots.
> I'll
> go out very speedily one day next week in my intelligently-designed,
> now
> 510HP SSR and see what I can find at CompUSA or some similar geeky
> place.
> :-)
>
> Jeez!
>
> Olde Pharte Walther
>
> --
> "Anything more than 500 yards from
> the car just isn't photogenic." --
> Edward Weston
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