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From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 11 Feb 2010 15:34 On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:22:08 +0000, Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote: >On 2010-02-11 19:23:38 +0000, Jaimie Vandenbergh said: > >> I've just got back into scuba diving (thanks to a short holiday >> bobbing up and down in the red sea), and need to get my dive computer >> connected to slurp out my dives. It's a Suunto Vyper, and it's got an >> old 9 pin D shell serial connector. Nasty. > >You'd think it'd be cheaper to just provide USB nowadays. I bought the kit in 2002, so it would have been a little ahead of the curve... >The Keyspan USA-19HS (single 9-pin port) has Snow Leopard drivers. And I see it's recommended by Suunto, at that. Sounds like a good bet. Cheers - Jaimie -- The glass, being topologically equivalent to a finite flat sheet, can be neither "full" nor "empty" : it may or may not have some beer balanced on it. - Oldbloke, urs
From: Pd on 11 Feb 2010 15:46 Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: > >You'd think it'd be cheaper to just provide USB nowadays. > > I bought the kit in 2002, so it would have been a little ahead of the > curve... Didn't USB come out in 1996? And I'm sure there was a computer released somewhen around 1998 which only had USB connectivity, so a USB connection for a dive computer wouldn't have been that much of a leap in the dark. Especially since only rich buggers can afford to go diving (without a 12mm drysuit and hot air blower, anyway), and those with dive computers have already demonstrated they're gadget geeks so they would already have all the latest computer gear. <drifts off in happy reverie daydreaming about reef diving off Sodwana Bay...> -- Pd
From: Rod on 11 Feb 2010 15:47 On 11/02/2010 19:53, Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote: <> > > Unfortunately not - Minis, MBP13" and Air here, nothing other than USB > or firewire to use. > > Unless some loony has made an ethernet-serial adapter. > > Cheers - Jaimie Well... <http://www.dabs.com/products/startech-com-rs-232-serial-ethernet-ip-adapter--device-server--console-server--4JDW.html> <http://www.openxtra.co.uk/netport> But they each end up being about the sum of both of your current options. Maybe there are cheaper ones? -- Rod
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 11 Feb 2010 15:57 On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:46:08 +0000, peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid (Pd) wrote: >Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: > >> >You'd think it'd be cheaper to just provide USB nowadays. >> >> I bought the kit in 2002, so it would have been a little ahead of the >> curve... > >Didn't USB come out in 1996? And I'm sure there was a computer released >somewhen around 1998 which only had USB connectivity, so a USB >connection for a dive computer wouldn't have been that much of a leap in >the dark. Straining my memory, I think the issue was �50 for the serial linkup, and �125 for the USB version. On top of �200 for the dive computer. Pfui, was my comment at the time, and the likely total outlay has certainly proved me right. >Especially since only rich buggers can afford to go diving (without a >12mm drysuit and hot air blower, anyway), and those with dive computers >have already demonstrated they're gadget geeks so they would already >have all the latest computer gear. > ><drifts off in happy reverie daydreaming about reef diving off Sodwana >Bay...> The little holiday I just took was partly to get back into diving, and I've never dived outside the UK before so it was spectacularly impressive. And nice'n'warm. I was surprised how simple it is diving wetsuit instead of drysuit... and 23'C rather than 4'C! Cheers - Jaimie -- If ignorance is bliss, why are so many people unhappy?
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 11 Feb 2010 16:34
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:46:08 +0000, peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid (Pd) wrote: >Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: > >> >You'd think it'd be cheaper to just provide USB nowadays. >> >> I bought the kit in 2002, so it would have been a little ahead of the >> curve... > >Didn't USB come out in 1996? And I'm sure there was a computer released >somewhen around 1998 which only had USB connectivity, so a USB >connection for a dive computer wouldn't have been that much of a leap in >the dark. Serendipitously, here's an interestingish diagram of ports over the years: http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/02/08/inside_apples_ipad_vga_video_output.html Cheers - Jaimie -- >So, what do *you* do for a living? I sit in a chair pressing small plastic rectangles with my fingers while peering at many tiny, colored dots. -- Peter Manders |