Does anybody have the AstroFinder software #505, for the Meade #497 Autostar, and had any trouble with it? The weather has finally become good for using my Meade UHTC SN-10 http://www.meade.com/catalog/lxd55/lxd55_schmidt-newtonian.html, so I tried hooking it up to one of my IBM laptops, with AstroFinder loaded... it couldn't connect! "Fortunately" I have 2 IBM laptops, so I connected the other up... with the same results. Now when I connect the laptops to my Microsoft Cordless Phone- which I normally have running all day- it "can't communicate with the base station..." Good ol' Autostar fried the serial ports of both my laptops!!! As a BSEE, that's the first time- as far as I can remember- that I've had logic inputs & outputs fried, simply by connecting to another (supposedly) signal-level device... way to go, Meade! I've ordered a couple USB to serial port expanders, so hopefully this hasn't effectively trashed my laptops... though no doubt Clueless Phone will insist upon using Serial Port #1... :-( ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from SeeSat-L, send a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@satobs.org List archived at http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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