Chinese Smoothstepper

[dazp1976]

These ain't no smoothstepper:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MACH3-4-A...m3ZI:rk:3:pf:0
At least it's usb I guess.

For a basic 3-4 axis via parallel port these are brill at under £5:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/5-Axis-CN...2P:rk:138:pf:0

If you plan on a 4+ axis mill with 3+ axis tool changer & pdb, fluid control, auto oil, spindle control, probe etc then it's the proper Warp9 ESS all the way with up to 3 of those £5 boards attached :)

One thing I will say though is myself I have yet to get Win7 32bit working reliably on the parallel port. WinXP is flawless.
So I reckon:
For a Win7 build it's usb or ethernet.
For parallel it's XP.

No idea why my Win7 via parallel isn't reliable, had the same result on 2 new pc's. Both of them with XP installed were flawless.