Step four Dongle

[Ross Shellard]

I have a Step four CNC hot wire cutter, I am using the supplied parallel port dongle, being Step Four no longer exist i am now wanting to upgrade the dongle to a usb dongle to enable me to upgrade the old computer i have been using, any suggestions would be appreciated.

[magicniner]

The simple answer is you can't upgrade the dongle as the company no longer exists.
Depending on how the software interrogates the dongle you may be able to use a USB to parallel converter, but you will still be restricted to a Windows version which supports the parallel port so Windows 10 is a non-starter,

- Nick

[Ross Shellard]

Thanks Nick, I didn't think it would be straight forward.

[Boyan Silyavski]

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