Hi all,

Glad to join the forum! My name's Ryan. I handle CAD & Tool Design for a CNC manufacturing company. Have 7+ years experience in CAD & CNC machining and more recently IT / networking too.

My first question to the forum is:

One of our older machines is a Takisawa TC-20 with Fanuc Series 21-T and we need to connect a computer or USB drive to send NC files to the machine. The only connection the machine has is a RS232 DB25.

There have been many posts about this general topic online, but it would be good if someone could give advice on the best solution for this specific machine, if possible.

We don't have any computers with built-in RS232 ports anymore, so an adapter of some sort is looking likely. Although if we could get an adapter/reader for a USB stick without needing a dedicated computer that would also be great.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Ryan