Speakup on a Mac was Re: Hello & a question

[Nektarios Mallas]

I am not sure about this, but can he use a USB to serial adaptor for this
purpose? He may not have access to speakup as early as a regular serial port
but after the USB services are started it might be possible to use a serial
sinth with it.
Just a thought.
Nektarios.


-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca]On
Behalf Of Kenny Hitt
Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 12:32 PM
To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
Subject: Re: Speakup on a Mac was Re: Hello & a question


Hi.  I checked into hardward differences betweene PC's and Macs.
Basically, You will need an adapter to connect a serial synth to a Mac.
Don't know a source to buy them so you might have to make them.  Macs
will have the same problem that current PC's have: Aple stopped putting
serial ports on Macs around 1999.
In summary, its possible to run speakup on a Mac, but it isn't easy.
Just like with PC's, you will need a Mac which still has a serial port.
Unlike using a PC, you will also need an adapter to connect to the
serial port.

          Kenny

On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 02:34:30PM -0600, Luke Davis wrote:
> True, but can the synths we normally use talk to the Mac?
>
> Luke
>
>
> On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Kenny Hitt wrote:
>
> > Speakup talks to the kernel's serial driver, so the UART is delt with by
> > the kernel.
> >
> >           Kenny
> >
> > On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 10:45:44AM -0600, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> > > Hmmm, do macs use the same serial uart as pc-compatibles?
> > >
> > > Greg
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 08:44:02AM -0600, Kenny Hitt wrote:
> > > > Hi.
> > > >
> > > > On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 09:25:34PM -0800, Bear in SFO wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > But do they 'speakup'?
> > > >
> > > > Doubt you can use an internal synth, but an external synth should
work.
> > > >
> > > >           Kenny
> > > >
> > > > 	  >
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