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David Gillett <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 6 Feb 2006 18:53:33 -0800
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On 6 Feb 2006 at 13:04, Lewis c Emerson wrote:

> I'm using an old machine with an Intel 166 MHz P5 and running Windows-95.
>  The USB ports will not recognize either of my two Flash Drives.  I'm
> guessing that this is because these are compatible with USB ports 2.0 and
> the machine most probably can handle only USB hardware version 1.0.  I'm
> not sure if I've stated this correctly, but maybe well enuf' to be
> understood.  Is there an adaptor available or anything I can do to enable
> my old machine accept these new Flash Drives?
> 
> Lewis Emerson

  Do these USB ports work for anything else?  USB support was a late 
addition to Windows 98SE.  If there's a way to get it in Win 95, I don't 
know about it.
  (USB 2.0 devices should be backwards compatible *at least* to 1.1, if not 
1.0.)

David Gillett

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