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On Sun, 14 May 2006 15:57:27 -0500, 2 wrote:

> Bible John wrote:
>>
>> I do not believe a serial based reader exists. Or does it?
>
> How about getting a Serial to USB adapter?

I did a quick check, no longer available.
Then there would still be a driver problem if one was found.

Bible John wrote:
> --
> Luke 9:26-If anyone is ashamed of me and my words, the Son of Man will be
> ashamed of him when he comes in his glory and in the glory of the Father and
> of the holy angels.

Q.E.D.

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> Bible John wrote:
>> --
>> Luke 9:26-If anyone is ashamed of me and my words, the Son of Man will be
>> ashamed of him when he comes in his glory and in the glory of the Father
>> and of the holy angels.
>
> Q.E.D.
>
> --
> lsmft

What a crock of ****.

Bible John wrote:

>Also my old PC laptop I doubt can
> use a modern digital camera.
>

PCMCIA to compact flash adapters are comon hardware. I use one with a
thinkpad 760 (pentium 133 laptop)
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Stacey

Bible John wrote:
> Do they still exist? I remember seeing some high end models a few years
> ago. Perhaps some are still using them. Frankly I cnat imagine why.
>
> Up to 2 years ago my family was using a old serial/SCSI Mac. They wanted a
> digital camera, but I told them that they had to choose either the Mavica,
> or a mail order serial camera. I doubt these are still being made. But then
> again I could be wrong. Are they?
>
>
> John
>
>
USB is a serial protocol, and many cameras have them. Or do you mean the
old serial protocol using the DIN connectors?

Microtech made a SCSI card reader, much more expensive than the USB
type. There are also parallel port card readers, which have the
reputation of being very slow. So if a serial reader was ever made, it
would be like pouring molasses.

Tom

On Sun, 14 May 2006 21:48:43 +0100, Peter Chant wrote:

>> I do not believe a serial based reader exists. Or does it?
>
> Not that I'm aware of. You've basically got two options, buy an old
> camera to go with the computer or buy a newer computer. Perhaps
> there is a third option, do any highstree places that produce prints from
> memory cards burn CD's at the same time?

When I got my old Powershot S10, my even older Win95 computer had
no USB ports so I used the serial port for a few days. Before a
week had passed I bought a parallel port card reader, which had
blazingly fast copying speed, at least compared to the serial port.
Sounds like a third option to me, if they can still be found. A
fourth option, which I currently use, is a SCSI PCMCIA card reader.
They tended to be expensive (several hundreds of dollars), but I
found one for $50 on Kodak's website. It's *much* faster than the
parallel port reader, and being SCSI, probably bypasses the Windows
size limit imposed by FAT16 partitions. My largest cards are only
1GB, so I have yet to test this. Oh yeah, I almost forgot. My
current cameras probably can't handle cards larger than 1GB either,
so the testing won't occur anytime soon.

On Sun, 14 May 2006 20:59:46 GMT, RW+/- wrote:

> Old Olympus cameras had serial cables and I suppose you could look for
> these on Ebay or whatever.

Canon's Powershots (S10 and S20) had both serial and USB ports. I
never used the USB ports, and the serial ports worked well, as long
as there were only a small number of pictures to transfer, and time
wasn't an issue. I didn't waste much time getting a card reader.

On Tue, 16 May 2006 03:13:52 -0400, ASAAR wrote:

> On Sun, 14 May 2006 20:59:46 GMT, RW+/- wrote:
>
>> Old Olympus cameras had serial cables and I suppose you could look for
>> these on Ebay or whatever.
>
> Canon's Powershots (S10 and S20) had both serial and USB ports. I
> never used the USB ports, and the serial ports worked well, as long
> as there were only a small number of pictures to transfer, and time
> wasn't an issue. I didn't waste much time getting a card reader.

Heh, me too, but the camera was configurable via the serial port so I
occasionally would still hook it up that way.