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 - 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.
