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   10-16-21 08:09 August Abolins wrote to Ed Vance about USB 3.0 Flash Drive go   
   Howdy! August,   
      
   Thanks for helping me understand what I need to do if I'd want   
   the XP box to be able to read that USB 3.0 4TB HDD.   
   Appreciate the thought. Here's some comments OTTOMH (*).   
      
   Instead of looking at the Amazon URL I will do a DuckDuckGo   
   search for the MagiDeal 3.0 card and see if any information about   
   it or if any store has it.   
      
    AA> ** On Friday 15.10.21 - 20:02, Ed Vance wrote to August   
    AA> Abolins:   
      
    EV> A couple of years ago I bought a 4TB WD My Passport USB   
    EV> 3.0 HDD [...]   
      
    EV> I started thinking maybe there might be something like a   
    EV> Powered USB Hub that had USB 3.0 connectors so that I   
    EV> could plug the 3.0 HDD in one of the front connectors and   
    EV> put the output cable to one of the USB 2.0 jacks on the XP   
    EV> box.   
      
    AA> I don't think XP's built-in USB 2.0 ports will service a USB 3   
    AA> extender and somehow miraculously produce USB 3 compatibility.   
      
    AA> You probably need to install a USB 3 board on your XP pc first.   
      
   I believe this XP desktop still has a empty Card Slot.   
   Hope so because I put a SCSI Card in one Slot for a SyQuest HDD.   
   I think there is another empty Slot available on the motherboard.   
      
   a friend got the SyQuest EZ Flyer 230MB HDD from Ebay for me.   
   I couldn't buy it myself because I don't have a Credit Card to use   
   to purchase stuff.   
      
   I wanted the EZ Flyer because I have many EZ-135 Cartridges I made   
   on my 486-DX2-66 MSDOS 5.0/IBMDOS 7.0/Win3.1 computer when I used   
   a External EZ-135 HDD long ago (Until it quit working) for Backing   
   Up and also being able to have and use Software without putting it   
   on the 486's HDD and taking up space on them (330 MB C:&500MB D:).   
      
    AA> I explored such a thing for my T60 laptop, via PCMCIA, several   
    AA> years ago and gave up.   
      
   PCMCIA Cards are nice.   
      
   When I used a Acer notebook that ran Win95 I got a PCMCIA LAN Card   
   for it so I could use it also on DSL with this XP box.   
      
   That notebook hasn't worked after I tried putting a Clock Battery   
   in it.   
   Doing that was a MAJOR OPERATION, and Operation is the correct word   
   because to get to the Battery Holder required opening the case and   
   removing the PC Board and Other Things to do the job.   
      
   When I got it back together and turned it On I didn't see anything   
   on the LCD Screen, so opened it up a second time and put it back   
   together but no luck either time.   
      
   That was a long time ago and I still think about what I could do   
   to use it again because there was one program on it that I really   
   enjoyed using. OTTOMH(*) I can't remember the programs Name.   
      
   I've wrote about the program in this echo years ago.   
   It had a World Map and showed the Time of Day for 8 places that I   
   selected, on the Map.   
      
   One thing I thought about is seeing if the Video connector would   
   let me see what was on that Win95 computer on the Monitor my   
   Desktop XP box uses.   
      
   The other idea I've thought of is that I still have the Software   
   that came in the box and wondered if I could run Win95 in a VM ?   
      
   I have Inotek VirtualBox on this XP box and have used it to try   
   running a UBUNTU (U'U) Install in a VM and that works.   
      
   Usually I just play with U'U by running it on the CD as a   
   Limited User, but I just had to try seeing how U'U worked as a   
   Full Install inside a VM.   
      
   I'm not sure if the Acer Win95 Software would run on this HP XP.   
   I think I tried making a VM once but I remember seeing Error   
   Messages about the Drivers not being able to find the Hardware it   
   was looking for.   
      
   Just like Years ago when I was in a Flea Market and bought a   
   Win98 CD for a Gateway 2000 while there.   
   I tried to put it in a VM and Run it, but only saw a Nag Screen   
   saying that the computer WASN"T A GATEWAY PC so it couldn't run   
   in the VM.   
      
   I think long ago I tried making a VM of the Acer Win95 software   
   On an Acer pc running Vista but it didn't work.   
   (Maybe I ought to try that again cause my memory isn't always   
   accurate).   
      
    AA> But.. maybe I should revisit the situation:   
      
    AA> https://www.amazon.ca/MagiDeal-USB3-0-Express-ExpressCard-   
    AA> Adapter/dp/B0787ZZ58P   
      
   (*)OTTOMH = Off The Top Of My Head.   
      
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