Consider making your Mac dual boot, Ray -- if it
will support the newer OS. 10.5.8 is ancient (I
reckon you need Rosetta for the old apps) and many
applications no longer support it.
73, Phil W7OX
On 3/31/14, 4:31 PM, Ray Sills wrote:
I've seen the occasional mention by someone who,
when trying to update firmware, comes up with an
error.. e.g. there recent "I've bricked my K3"
posting. And part of the advice to remedy that
is to make sure that you have the latest version
of the Utility.
Well, just for fun, I downloaded the latest
version of the KX3 Utility, HOWEVER.... it does
not run on my computer. Apparently, my OS is
"too old" to run the Utility. Now, I
understand that there are reasons to update the
utility, because it may have more tasks to perform.
But, it seems odd to me that I'd need a newer OS
to run that application. After all, the job of
the Utility it to locate, either on the web, or
on a local drive, the files that it needs to
send them to the rig. I can't believe that
there needs to be some extra OS feature for
simple serial communication from one device to
another.
So, I would like to request that the software
gurus at Elecraft make a special effort to make
the Utilities "backwards" compatible with as
many variants of an OS as possible. In my case,
I use the Mac version of the KX3 Utility, and my
OS is 10.5.8. I can't believe that there is
some critical component that is not in my OS,
that -is- in the next revision. It may be that
in authoring the latest Utility, it was simply
compiled by a machine running a later OS, and
therefore the generated code was "stamped" with
the requirement to have that OS to run.
This is important to me, because I do not want
to "upgrade" my OS (even to the new "free"
Mavericks) because to do so will cost me a
number of applications which will no longer run
on my particular machine. There's nothing wrong
with my KX3, but it would be nice to be able to
update the firmware, perhaps adding a feature
I'd like to have. But, I can't do that now.
I'll be "stuck" with older firmware.
73 de Ray
K2ULR
KX3 #211
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