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I used to have (+10 years ago!) the Celestron Pixcel 255 which was a re-badged ST5C and it used to run fine off a Win 98 pc with a 40M HDD and a Pentium II processor with 256K of RAM, so you don’t need a modern PC.
If I remember correctly, you should have the CCD camera, a black box, a mains adapter and at least x2 off 25-way parallel cables.
The CCD camera connects via a 25-way parallel cable to the black box.
The rear panel of the black box has x2 off 25 way D-type sockets for connecting to a PC and the camera head, an RJ11 socket for the telescope communication cable used for auto guiding, and the 12V dc power inlet socket.
The 12V dc power supply plugs into the black box to provide power for the entire system via a single cable and power point.
There was an illuminated power switch on the front of the black box.
It is good that you have a legacy parallel port – if there is an LPT1, 2 & 3 then just try each LPT in turn to see if one of them works.
I’m not sure if I had to make sure my parallel port was set to ECP, which is bi-directional? It was such a long, long time ago.
Good luck with getting it to work; it is a very nice camera.
Cheers
Dennis
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