[Ham-Computers] failure to copy

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I agree with John et al.  Part of the reason I bought our first Nikon was 
that I no longer had to plug the entire camera into the computer but could plug 
the flash card into a reader and treat it like any other drive.  Plus it took 
about an hour to transfer 100 photos because the interface was serial.  Now we 
transfer 500+ in 6 or 8 minutes.  I keep a USB extension cable plugged into 
the rear of the computer with the socket end taped to the top of the UPS.  Newer 
cases tend to have front panel mounted USB sockets.

In a message dated 6/2/2007 2:54:15 PM Central Daylight Time, 
wb6blv at inreach.com writes: 
> Same here.   no way would I now connect any of my cams to the computer; it
> is so much easier to use the ten buck card reader; and of course one can use
> Windows to move rather than copy images and thus not have to format the card
> when it is returned to the cam...
> 

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