Nope, I was able to get USB working on my 6500 with 8.1. You have to
Tome Viewer the 1.2 drivers and pull them out, but it works. The
readme for 1.2 says it needs 8.5.1, but it does work in 8.1. For
mice and keyboards and such. Anything else is luck and ymmv.
Well, that is good to know. I
I remember the first iMacs shipped with 8.1, so some USB devices, like
Apple's keyboards and mice definitely work. Anyone know or use other USB
devices, like printers, scanners, etc?
I want to see about downgrading a 1400c from 8.5.1 for speed and adding a USB
PCMCIA card to it to say, use a
Hmm, last I heard, there were no 16-bit PCMCIA USB cards for
Macintosh. They all require CardBus slots. The 1400c does not have
CardBus. Thus, you cannot use USB on a 1400c.
Otherwise, I also seem to recall that the OS 8.1 USB extensions ONLY
work on the iMac. That is, I'm pretty sure that
At 11:15 PM 2/7/2003 -0700, you wrote:
Hmm, last I heard, there were no 16-bit PCMCIA USB cards for
Macintosh. They all require CardBus slots. The 1400c does not have
CardBus. Thus, you cannot use USB on a 1400c.
Nope, never seen a 16-bit USB card. Probably not one, that I know of.
