I have an Olympus Camedia C-830L. I wish to be able to download photos onto my laptop, which does not have a CD drive.

Is there any possibility of obtaining the relevant software for this on floppy disk, and if so, where could I get it.

Thank you

-- Mrs J R Green (june.rose@ukonline.co.uk), October 16, 1999

Answers

I'd check Olympus's web site and see what I could find. You might find drivers there that you could download directly on an internet ready laptop, or a set of files used to produce floppies that you could download on a desktop machine and then transfer onto the laptop via the floppies. Then again, some manufacturer's seem to think they're guarding the crown jewels...

If you have no luck on the website, try tech support or consider an adaptor that could be plugged into a pcmcia slot on the laptop. Several smartmedia or compactflash to pcmcia adaptors are available. I use a Lexar Media Reader to transfer smartmedia images into my laptop through it's parallel port. Both are available for about $35 through US vendors. There are also smartmedia to floppy disk adapters available from Olympus and others, but I'm not sure if the software comes on floppy or cd?

The other thing that comes to mind is setting up a direct cable connection between your laptop and a PC with a CDrom and copying the installation files from the CD onto your laptop's hard drive. Then you can install the software from the hard drive to the hard drive and then erase the original installation files to conserve space on your laptop.

Good Luck!

-- Gerald Payne (gmp@francorp.francomm.com), October 16, 1999.