Ecnerwal wrote: > In article <HrOdnaiqvJQG5xDVnZ2dnUVZ8v-dnZ2d@bt.com>, > Dave Lawson <davidslawson@btinternet.unspam.com> wrote: >> I've looked on their website and they say they are not now supporting >> the serial art pads and their driver works only up to OS 9. >> >> I'm hoping someone may have a "third party" >> solution before I abandon it and buy a new one. > > You can hope all you like. Won't make it happen. Planned obsolescence is > the essence of computer peripherals
Such is life!!!
- and OSX was a great thing for > obsoleting a bunch of stuff, by the simple means of not providing > drivers, and not providing the information anyone else would need to > make drivers. Reverse engineering is not cost effective, so... > > My personal collection of useless junk includes: > > ...two OS9 flat scanners - USB, but no OSX drivers. Two SCSI slide > scanners with SCSI cards that are OS9 only, but at least one of those > was already dead from careful design of parts that fail shortly after > warranty runs out. A big honking ADB tablet. A fancy data acquisition > card that's NuBus. > I have a SCSI film scanner, Nikon Coolscan III, which works fine with a SCSI to Firewire adapter from Ratco Systems - FR1SX - via Vuescan. Could this resurrect something for you.
Apart from that, most of these peripherals are cheap enough to replace, as far as I can remember of the original price, and all technology prices are still dropping by the day. I'll just have to count up a few pennies and go shopping.
