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To: Bill D'Angelo who wrote (1495)	11/12/1997 2:40:00 PM
From: Mike Winn	Respond to of 60323

Re: Do I have to buy another interface device for my PC to do this? To plug the flash into? Easy, if the cam has a serial interface built in. Or Sandisk can build a PCMCIA interface for CompactFlash, so that you can plug in your CF onto the PCMCIA of your notebook. I am also sure that some third party vendor will come up with a cheap box that reads the flash and transfers the data to the PC using a simple serial interface.

To: Bill D'Angelo who wrote (1495)	11/12/1997 3:20:00 PM
From: James Choi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 60323

>Do I have to buy another interface device for my PC to do this? All these adapters are out in the market today. Stop by a large photo store's digital photography section. You are likely to see a computer sitting on it. If you look closely, you will see that it is equipped with a CompactFlash reading device. It is the case here in Wolf Camera store where I live (Chicago Suburb). CompactFlash transforms itself into PCMCIA card when fitted into an adapter ($20 or so). Then, if your computer is a laptop, it just plugs in to your friendly PCMCIA port and your File Manager suddenly sees (the device driver can be downloaded from Kodak, actually it comes with the camera) another drive filled with picture files. You manipulate the files in your CompactFlash as if you are doing with on a regular hard drive. There are PCMCIA ports made for desktop PCs. About $150 will buy you a port that looks awefully like 3.5" floppy drive except the opening is smaller. You put in PCMCIA card with FC inside into it, then your desktop computer sees another drive full of photographs, or sounds, or, of course, smells. Kodak Digital cameras come with serial port adapter for both PC and Mac. You just transfer it over the wire but it is slow. Remember that we are dealing with tens of megabytes here. It will be unbearably slow if it moves at floppy drive's speed. James Choi