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Here I sit looking at my beautiful new machine at work! It's a compaq deskpro P3 with 192Mb ram. Check the back! Yes! USB ports! Then the light becomes an oncoming train! The systems running Windows 95 vs 4.00.950 b. Argghhh! Can't upgrade! Very much frowned upon in corporate environment!

Sighhhhh....

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Originally posted by Travis:
Here I sit looking at my beautiful new machine at work! It's a compaq deskpro P3 with 192Mb ram. Check the back! Yes! USB ports! Then the light becomes an oncoming train! The systems running Windows 95 vs 4.00.950 b. Argghhh! Can't upgrade! Very much frowned upon in corporate environment!

Sighhhhh....

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There is a version of 95b that does have USB support. I'm not sure how you can get ahold of it, but it does exist (and as far as I can tell you can't tell from looking at the properties box) -- I have 2 W95 CD's one says "With USB support" (came with my laptop), one doesn't (came with my desktop, bought before the laptop), they both say "4.00 950b"

Unfortunately, Win95's USB won't support the Visor drivers (the USB implementation in 95 is weak at best).

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Can somebaody explain why 95 w/ USB support will not work with the Visor. It makes no sense why you can use some devices with USB on this version of Win 95 while some others you can't. Maybe its just Microsoft.
BEN

Well, thanks for the info. I won't waste my time looking for the patch. Oh . . . you mean there is something better then dot matrix out?! ;b

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Originally posted by BEN:
Can somebaody explain why 95 w/ USB support will not work with the Visor. It makes no sense why you can use some devices with USB on this version of Win 95 while some others you can't. Maybe its just Microsoft.
BEN

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Originally posted by Travis:
Oh . . . you mean there is something better then dot matrix out?! ;b

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If you want the full skinny, point your browser to http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/busbios/usbwin98.htm

The Reader's Digest version: The Handspring USB drivers uses some features found only in in Windows 98/2000. A case could be made that a Win95B USB driver could be developed but if you read between the lines, each vendor would have to supply their own routine that's missing in Win95B USB support-- increasing the likelihood someone else's Win95B USB driver can take yours out.