[GreenKeys] Heavy Metal on Mac?

[epvgk at limpoc.com]

On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 05:33:12PM -0400, Lee Spenadel wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I?m still trying to see what the best approach will be to drive my future
> M28 (none found yet in the Northeast) from Heavy Metal. I first thought that
> setting it up under Linux would be best as I have an Asterisk PBX running
> under it at the moment.  But under further examination I realized that it
> would add unnecessary steps to have to walk over to the Linux box to start
> the HM feed.  Why not use my Mac?  So I have two options.  One would be to
> see if HM runs under MacOSX, or if all else fails, run HM on my Windows 7
> Virtual Machine (on the Mac) and find a USB to Serial adapter to support the
> HM / RS-232 feed.  Assuming that there is no Mac version, has anyone had
> good luck with a USB-to-Serial converter with HM?  Is so, what make/model
> has worked?
> 
> Many thanks
> Lee
> 

you might peruse John Nagle's site, as he's done all the research on this
already: 
	http://aetherltd.com/connectingusb.html

I am using the interface he recommends here with linux and it does indeed
work. 
eric