Hi Bill. Oh dear, that would be a lot of adaptors and I fear an explosion might be in the making. I only have one external adaptor, but see where I may need another.
This leads me to another question. Is there a quick way to transfer files from one external hard drive to another external hard drive? Becky ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Gallik" <billgal...@centurytel.net> To: <blind-computing@jaws-users.com> Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2009 11:48 AM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] USB adaptor That's an interesting question. I'm presuming that what you're talking about is a cable with a "mail USB connector" on one end to plug into the PC and a block with 4 "female connectors" for receiving various USB devices? And do you have multiple USB ports on your PC? Here's what I'm supposing: you have two or three of these adapters and maybe 4 USB ports on your PC, you're wondering if you can plug all three of the USB adapters into three of the USB ports on the PC and maybe another device on the 4th PC port for a total of 13 total devices (3 adapters × 4 female receivers plus the 1 raw port)? Why don't you try it and let the rest of us know how it turned out? Seriously, I don't see any reason this would not work! But what in the world would you need with all those USB devices? One thing for sure, you can swap USB adapters and devices in/out as you need them. Just be careful to close out any device before you physically remove it from the PC configuration. In Vista there is a "Safely Remove" option in the FILE menu, I have no idea if this is available in earlier versions of Windows but be sure to use something akin to this procedure just to make sure your PC is not performing I/O on the device being removed. -- Merry Christmas Holland, Chillie & Bill >From Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol," Nephew Fred admonishes Scrooge for his lack of Christmas spirit: "`There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say,' returned the nephew. `Christmas among the rest. But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round -- apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that -- as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. And therefore, uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!'" For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
