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| Thread ID: 109740 | 2010-05-21 04:11:00 | Is there such a beast as........ | Billy T (70) | Press F1 |
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| 886783 | 2010-05-24 00:32:00 | I agree, but in the industrial instrument market, equipment is often used way beyond normal consumer time scales. The range of equipment in the Farnell and RS catalogues catering for obsolete computer technology suggests that this is not an uncommon problem. As I said previously (above) the industrial market runs from (not too) close to the bleeding edge all the way back to DOS and pretty much the full range of hardware is still available for that market. I've tried USB to serial and USB to parallel converters in the past to connect other instruments to more modern PCs with mixed results, but it gets very problematic when you have to use essential DOS programs that have limited ability to run on later systems. DOS>USB>DOS doesn't seem to work too well but I'm hopeful that I will extend the flexibility of the Libretto if I can find a PCMCIA to USB card. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
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| 886784 | 2010-05-24 00:39:00 | I'm with jwil1, why not a VM? | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 886785 | 2010-05-24 00:54:00 | I feel for ya Billy Some of our users use serial to USB adapters for electrical installations but find them a bit buggy Cant beat an old laptop with a serial 232 plug :) 100% |
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