Reply #6: Not all that unusual, really.

[MineralMan]

An Intel Play microscope, which I use for extreme closeup photography and videography. I can use the camera, but not the built in lighting, so my images are not what they should be. That's one.

Another is an off-brand video camera, which included software-controlled pan zoom and focus features. It's a parallel port device. No joy with that one at all. It wouldn't matter, but I like the camera, despite its age an obscurity. On my PC, it's part of an outdoor monitoring system. In Windows, I wrote my own software to control it. I no longer program, since MSFT screwed up Visual Basic, my language of choice.

But, it's OK. I don't actually use the Linux machine for anything, really. It's just a toy to screw around with when I'm bored.