I have the Midisport 8x8. It is great since there are drivers that span from OS9 using OMS (USB on a G3) up until my current OSX 10.8.5. I never was able to get the serial port to work under OS9 or 8.6.
hmm that doesnt sound right.. the midisport 8x8 should work as far as i know.. the original 8x8/s was released in 2001 i believe? or late 2000? MacOS9 was new + very much the standard mac os at the time... so it MUST WORK! perhaps they made different revisions of the Midisport 8x8 unit.. after about 2004? when all the support for os9 dwindled out of existance after hanging on for 2 years since the "steve jobs funeral"
are there any other midisport 8x8 owners out there?
ok wait im misunderstanding your post.. you said u never got it to work WITH THE SERIAL PORT
under mac os 9.... so i guess that means that it worked fine using the USB port? that doesnt make much logical sense tho either... using which mac model? were you using a modem-serial adapter?