G'day Ronni I have an Imac 7,1 Osx 6.8 Telescope Celestion nexstar 6E Skyline planetarium software. I understand about RS232 as I am 73 "That's really old" and was bought on Rs232 as a matter of fact installed it through the ABC in Hobart when they wen't into computers. I know I can operate via my PC with windows but I am hoping to divorce myself from windows a purchase a macBook of some description, but if software won't work with Mac then I guess I am stuck with windows for a while. Is this enough info.
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Ronni Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote: > Hi Bill, > > You don't give any information about what Mac computer & OS X you are > using, or the Telescope, or the Software program. > > Is the Software Mac compatible or are you running the software in Windows > 'Boot Camp' or 'Parallels Desktop'? > > Depends on the specifications and what it has to transfer, a "USB to > RS-232 Serial Adapter Cable" could be what you require. > But not just any "USB to RS-232 Serial Adapter Cable"! > "I understand the reasons for scope manufacturers to keep RS232 > connections to the scopes. It makes perfect sense for power and distance > reasons. But computers just do not have serial ports any more. Especially > Macs! So the USB - Serial adapter is required. > USB is a PROTOCOL (language) as well as electrical definition. Serial > RS232 is purely voltages. SO - a converter needs some brains to do the > language to voltage conversion. Hence the necessity of drivers as well as > just the cable. > > OS X Lion (10.7) broke a number of existing drivers for USB-Serial > converters on the market. Its all to do with 64 bit kernels and drivers and > other bits of magic. Suffice to say, some things that used to work, now > don't." > > You would need to have the Telescope plugged in to have the USB serial > Port come up in Terminal.app > These are VIRTUAL serial ports that are only created when the chip in the > USB-Serial cable starts handshaking with the scope controller. > > Without knowing anything about your Telescope or setup I can't really give > your any advice. > > Cheers, > Ronni > > 17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt" > 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD > > OS X 10.8.2 Mountain Lion > Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) > > On 21/11/2012, at 7:33 AM, Juliet Kitson <billand...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hello all > > I am about to purchase a telescope and the software to connect to a > > computer is via RS232 is there any way to connect to an Imac via > adaptors. > > Regards Bill > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > http://lists.wamug.org.au/pipermail/wamug.org.au-wamug/attachments/20121121/e630ed46/attachment.htm > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - < > http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wamug.org.au/pipermail/wamug.org.au-wamug/attachments/20121121/78dd9692/attachment.htm -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
