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[Mary C. Youra]

I have something of a problem. Our daughter, who is away at college and 
not the most tech-savvy person, asked for our old and mothballed Epson 
PhotoPC 600. She wants to take basic pictures, mostly for her webpage, 
but probably some will be printed as well. This camera, and its 
rechargeable batteries, would be ideal for her needs, especially as we 
already own it. However, I got it out to pack it up to send to her, I 
realized she has no way to connect it to her iMac to download the 
pictures. The iMac does not have either an external modem port (round 
connection) or printer port which the PhotoPC requires--it has USB and 
Firewire ports--nor does it have a PMCIA slot (which was the other way 
we used to deal with this). Were there ever adapters that would allow 
such hookups? Should I tell her to buy a card reader of some sort and a 
compact flash card? Should I buy her a new camera, figuring that this 
is just the tip of the iceberg? Epson's site has new drivers, but no 
information about newer cables.

Thanks very much for your thoughts.