A retired friend has just told me of his present from his wife- a shiney new digital camera. Unfortunately he's running a 32MB pentium 166 with a 2MB video card. What is the minimum spec you guys would recommend? No games, only an email terminal and photograph storage - possibly enhancement if he gets into it. I've got a spare AMD 500 with tnt 32MB graphics, would this be any good?

Ian

It's a big advance on his old P133, which could be put out to pasture as a hardware firewall for someone's ADSL connection!

For surfing the 'net/e-mail and storing his .jpg files your spare system ought to work just fine. I'm guessing that it has 128Mb of PC100 SDRAM, which will be quite enough under Windows 98/ME. My ex used our then current 400 MHz PII with a 32Mb graphics card to store her piccies and it coped perfectly well.

If your AMD system hasn't got USB ports you/he can get a USB 1.1 PCI card very cheaply. Otherwise, depending on what type of memory card the camera uses, he could always use one of those adapters that mounts it in the floppy disc drive.