You can run Topspin 3.2 with an Avance II console, and Windows 10 (haven't
tried it with 11).
We were using that configuration for a while back when we had an Avance II.
You will have to install the NT toolkit / Hummingbird addon to get the computer
to communicate with the console, though, and when doing this, you may need
to connect a serial RS232 cable from the computer's serial port to the console.
Today's computers don't have the old fashioned RS232 serial ports, so you'll
need to find a USB to serial adapater.
Ronald Shin
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Central Alabama High Field Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Facility
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> Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2025 2:41 PM
> To: Main <main_at_ammrl.groups.io>
> Subject: [AMMRL] Replacing an AVANCE II PC in 2025
Hello AMMRL,
Our AVANCE II computer died and I’m trying to replace it.
At the suggestions of others, I’ve started down the route of setting up
VirtualBox on our Windows 11 machine, so I can create a CentOS 5 VM to run
TopSpin 2.1. It’s a “two steps forward, one step back” process - for
example, I can install CentOS 5, but doing an update of the (non-Bruker)
packages requires a workaround.
Before I go too far down this path, I thought I’d ask the collective wisdom -
what have others done here? Are there newer Linux OSs that could work here?
Using Windows seems to rely on needing an NFS server that I cannot seem to find.
Our system could in theory support TopSpin 3.2 so I’d be open an option that
required me to use 3.2 as well.
Thanks for your time,
Sameer
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Sameer Al-Abdul-Wahid, Ph.D.
Manager, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Centre<
http://nmr.uoguelph.ca/>
University of Guelph
519-824-4120 x58914 / s.wahid_at_uoguelph.ca
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