Comments on: USB 2.0 Scanner won’t Work on USB 1.1 http://michaelwlind.com/2007/12/15/usb-20-scanner-wont-work-on-usb-11/ By Michael W. Lind Mon, 06 Sep 2010 02:25:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Tim http://michaelwlind.com/2007/12/15/usb-20-scanner-wont-work-on-usb-11/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Tim Wed, 26 Dec 2007 02:38:19 +0000 http://michaelwlind.com/2007/12/15/usb-20-scanner-wont-work-on-usb-11/#comment-7 This is unbelievably lame, especially considering they advertise this in the Skymall catalog and through direct mail, without mentioning that it is seriously hobbled. We have three computers in our house, two that are new enough to have come with Windows XP installed on them, yet this scanner won't work with any of them. How hard would it be to make this backward compliant, just like any other consumer electronics device plugging into a USB port? Be warned that there is nothing in the manual about this either. There is no "troubleshooting" section at all in fact, which says a lot about what this company thinks of its customers. This is unbelievably lame, especially considering they advertise this in the Skymall catalog and through direct mail, without mentioning that it is seriously hobbled. We have three computers in our house, two that are new enough to have come with Windows XP installed on them, yet this scanner won’t work with any of them. How hard would it be to make this backward compliant, just like any other consumer electronics device plugging into a USB port?

Be warned that there is nothing in the manual about this either. There is no “troubleshooting” section at all in fact, which says a lot about what this company thinks of its customers.

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