If you are referring to the system which connected to the printer parallel port - this is not possible - the technology required is obsolete and there is no software available that would work with this. is there a way to retrofit this device to interface with my laptop which has USB 2 and USB 3 ports. I have an old Canopus Digital Video Editing System. Use a good quality converter eg Terratec for the purpose. Or, buy a laptop (PC or Mac) with Thunderbolt. However, you can get an old MacBook Pro (or iMac) which will have n it on an old OSX like Snow Leopard and you'll be fine. Other than that, if the camera has a video / audio output then capture by USB video converter is the only way to go. There are no adapters that will allow you to run a FireWire device with USB.none. The EC13942A2 (2 Port) ExpressCard Laptop 1394a Firewire Adapter Card provides a stable platform for virtually any FireWire 400 device connection. If your laptop has a PCMCIA card slot then you may be able to get a PCMCIA FireWire adapter. 'Adapters' such as these below are useless - they only convert the cable connections, they do not convert the digital signal from the Firewire format to USB format which must be done - the formats are different require the proper conversion. If your laptop has a PCMCIA card slot then you may be able to find a PCMCIA FireWire adapter.

It is possible, however the proper converters are difficult to find. Does anyone know what equipment I would need to go from Firewire IEEE 1394 to USB? Is it even possible?.

Firewire interface for laptop