[WinMac] USB-Serial

John D. Muccigrosso(jmuccigr[at]drew.edu)
Thu, 25 Mar 1999 22:21:39 -0500

Dan,

I get the feeling that this is something of a moving target, but maybe you
can straighten me out:

You wrote:
> Yes, there are USB <--> serial converters. Unfortunately, they still fall
> into the same pitfall that the APC BackUPS Pro twins fall into... No
driver
> software.

I take this to mean no Mac software for the APC backup unit. Do you mean to
say then that there's no decent Mac backup system at all, regardless of
port variety (which would be a different problem from no USB units, which
seem to have the problem you originally mentioned:

> The problem is with both the iMac and the blue & white G3's: There's no
> graceful shutdown available from the UPS, because there's no serial
> input.

)?

John D. Muccigrosso

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