From: Stephen Ramsden <sramsden@natca.net>
Date: June 22, 2018 7:48:49 PM MDT
To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] Re: Macbook pro 2016
There is a massive supply of cheap 2009 iMacs and MacBooks for sale all over the Internet.
Get one as a dedicated ASTRO IIDC computer. :)
From my iPhone (sorry if it's short)
Stephen W. Ramsden
Director
Charlie Bates Solar Astronomy Project
404-543-7616
On Jun 22, 2018, at 9:28 PM, Milton Aupperle maupperl@gmail.com [Astro_IIDC] <Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
Did it come with Drivers or is it Plug and Pray?
The reason I ask about Drivers is I bought a USB 3 PCExpress card for my MBP 17” to do USB 3 dev and the drivers they had did not fully support the USB 3 Spec. They just cobbled some Class drivers together for common devices and left it at that.
Secondly, the power Thunderbolt supplies is much lower than the FireWire spec calls for (up to 30 volts at1.5 amps or 45 watts, nominally ~13 volts and 8 watts) so perhaps they are under recommended for FireWire? Do the FW camera lights even come on when you plug them in and turn solid green?
HTH..
Milton
> On Jun 22, 2018, at 5:26 PM, tjp314@pacbell.net [Astro_IIDC] <Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> The chameleon works, using the thunderbolt c to USB, HDMI and tunderbolt c adapter.
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> So I wonder if anybody has had any luck with one of the thunderbolt to firewire adapters? I think I need a thunderbolt c to original thunderbolt, then a thunderbolt to firewire (probably only 800), because I don't think there is a c-firewire adapter.
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> At least the USB3 works.