Jim asked :

> Christian Lheureux after Denys:
>
> > > Just try to use USB on Windows
> > > 95 or Windows
> > > NT 4.0.
> >
> > My colleague tried exactly that : connect a USB peripheral
> to his W95
> > laptop. Took him about 3 days, the laptop almost flew thru
> the windows (no
> > pun intended) countless times, foul language was used, etc.
> After 3 days,
> he
> > gave up, reinstalled the PC with W98, lost countless
> megabytes of data
> > (including lots of very valuable stuff), and got it to work.
>
> Okay, we have a guy here who bought his daughter a CD burner
> that only has
> USB connectivity.  She has a notebook computer that does not have USB
> capability.  He is buying a PCMCIA USB card to use with the
> CD burner.  Are
> you saying that Win 95 may not support this?  FWIW, I don't
> know for sure
> what OS is on the notebook.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jim Phillips

What I'm saying (but this is second-hand information, since my colleague did
the install, not me) is that it looks much, much, much easier to use USB
connectivity (including driver install, configuration, etc.) on W98 than on
W95. Therefore, my advice would be : make sure you have W98 or later.

Christian Lheureux

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