I get photos from my Olympus 3030 and 3040 cameras into my 8100 with a floppy disk adapter. You put the camera's Smartmedia card into the FlashPath floppy adapter and put the adapter into the floppy disk drive, just as you would any floppy, and move it onto the Mac's hard drive from there.
No need to mess with any serial ports that way. Tom >> >>> Does anyone know what would be the best digital camera and printer >>> combo I should purchase for my Q8100/250mhz G3... >> >> >> The situation on the digital camera side is even worse (for models that >> support use with 8100s). I don't remember too many cameras that supported >> the Mac serial port. Of course, Apple had one of the first consumer >> digi-cam models in the QuickTake series but those are more "collectors >> items" these days. Kodak also made an early digital camera that supported >> the Mac serial port. Digital photography didn't really catch on until after >> USB was well established as the standard interface. You may be better off >> finding a decent SCSI flat-bed scanner and taking pictures with an >> "old-fashioned" camera. -- 1st-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> 1st PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/1st-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List archive: <http://mail.maclaunch.com/lists/1st-powermacs/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
