[Techtoolslist] Mac users?
John Robertson
jrr at flippers.com
Fri Mar 14 12:59:09 EDT 2008
martin at guddler.co.uk wrote:
> Just wandering if there are many (any?) other users out there whose
> primary computing environment is not a PC?
>
> Up until VMWare released Fusion for the Mac i was maintaining a
> separate complete PC for interfacing with my Fluke 9010A and, Data I/O
> 29B and a TOP2005 programmer. I'm now using all of this on my main Mac
> laptop through Windows in Fusion and a USB to serial adapter for the
> Data IO and 9010A. I have also sent and received files to / from the
> 9100 through the USB to Serial adapter as well but I don't have so
> much of an interest in that one since it has it's own storage space.
>
> Would be very nice to be able to do away with windows altogether
> though, not least because I also have a Mac mini which makes an
> incredibly small space saving machine for the workbench :)
>
> Just pondering at the moment.
>
> Martin,
> _
I'm on a MacBook and am converting our shop over to the OS X both for
security and total lack of viruses to date. We do keep a PC for eprom
programmers and the like as they need serial ports, or AT hardware slots.
John :-#)#
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