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paulsherwin · 28th Jul 2017, 11:57 am

You can buy them for a pound or two, so you might as well buy one and try it. It will probably work. Just buy a cheap generic one from eBay or wherever.

However, you should remember that USB uses the main processor for most of the computation involved, so you may not get as much throughput as you might expect using an old machine (it will still be much better than USB 1.1 though).

28th Jul 2017, 11:57 am	#3
paulsherwin Moderator Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Oxford, UK Posts: 27,970	Re: "Vintage" PowerMac G4/800 (2002) You can buy them for a pound or two, so you might as well buy one and try it. It will probably work. Just buy a cheap generic one from eBay or wherever. However, you should remember that USB uses the main processor for most of the computation involved, so you may not get as much throughput as you might expect using an old machine (it will still be much better than USB 1.1 though).