I have a non-portable macintosh (Power Mac 7300/200), and I am looking at buying the DC260. What is the fastest way to access the images I take? Will any of the following work? 1) Using an 8mb ATI xClaim VR PCI monitor card, and view the images through a video application, then copying and pasting...expensive? 2) Getting a PCI USB card (assumes a USB driver for macintosh) I have not heard of any such devices 3) SCSI PCMCIA card reader - expensive? 4) Serial Cable (very slow?) I am interested in any other ways I might be able to do it, or if anyone has had similar experiences... ant

-- Anthony O'Halloran (aohallor@dao.defence.gov.au), August 04, 1998

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I saw this question hadn't been answered, so figured I'd jump in:

The video-based solution would lose all the resolution of the 260, so I really can't recommend it. I also haven't heard of USB cards for the Mac, but you could check two places. The Los Angeles Macintosh Group is hosting a forum on USB for the Mac, focused around the iMac, but likely to have other info as well. I think their main page is just http://www.lamg.org/ (mabye "com"). Another place to check is MacInTouch, at http://www.macintouch.com/ - they've got a page running on Mac USB, again focused on the iMac, but you may find info on other models as well.

Although more expensive, I'd go for the SCSI PCMCIA card reader - absolutely nothing beats this for speed, as you can transfer a full card of images in literally seconds.

-- Dave Etchells (web@imaging-resource.com), August 20, 1998.