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PortTerm 1.8.2

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Tool for writing to/reading from serial ports. Demo ($20)

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PortTerm is designed to give developers easy access to serial ports in OS X. It's a tool for writing to and reading from serial ports via a GUI. It includes the ability to write from a file and log data to a file.

What's New

"Read as" checkbox is ON by default. Transmit messages are color coded in blue Fixes a bug with "rn" suffix of Transmit messages

Requirements
PPC, Mac OS X 10.1 or later, Mac with a serial port or serial port adapter with proper drivers.

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Anonymous reviewed on 21 Jan 2005

Yes, people like me who're working on hardware/firmware development still use serial port. It's cheap, easy and requires less computing power to control. You don't need to put another USB controller chip on your board; you can hook the pins directly to your micro-controller, perfect for embedded system.

$20 for a general purpose terminal is way-to-high. There are various alternatives for free: goSerial, ZTrem (yes, ZTerm for OS X), minicom, and microcom.

[Version 1.6.2]

Anonymous reviewed on 22 Dec 2004

Serial ports? People still use those?

[Version 1.6.1]

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Anonymous commented on 28 Dec 2004

Yes, this is why Windoze people keep snubbing the Macs - almost every process (industrial) instrumentation sensor still includes an RS-232 or RS-485 port. Engineers still need to access it and ofcourse people like you dont care - but the "real-world" Windoze users still have the ability in Win XP to read and write to serial ports with Hyperterminal - which truly works with RS-232 type ports unlike Terminal.
Yes, get real - Macs are not going to be used in the Industry any day soon because of lack of utlities like these.
AM

Anonymous commented on 21 Jan 2005

Macs are not going to be used in Industry any day soon regardless of tools like these. Nor should they be.

Anonymous commented on 21 Jan 2005

Oh my god, where do you three guys came from ? The Color-iMac-with-OS-9 age ?
GRAB A USB ADAPTER AND LAUNCH MINICOM IN YOUR TERMINAL.APP !
USB-RS232 ADAPTER COSTS JUST 10 BUCKS AND MINICOM IS FREE!
Give me a break.

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