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Old 21-10-2010, 04:54 PM
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Originally Posted by avandonk View Post
Yep that is why I have a laptop for the guiding, laptop for the camera and a beaut little 12 year old IBM lappy running DOS for the Mel Bartels EQ6 mount. My mates son retrieved it from a binning at his work and you would swear it was made yesterday. He loaded DOS and Mel's software in by floppy disks. Runs better than the younger desktop that used to do this task.

As others have said not only is comm port allocation a problem, my Canon 5DH can saturate a USB 2 port when downloading images.

If h0ughy ends up with Beowolf cluster in his observatory it is not my fault!.....

Bert
mmmm well i might leave the camera control on the PC, transfer the guiding to the Acer one and see what happens from there
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