Afternoon......

Right then, vista should work with a parallel port card, you just have to get the right one, such as this one - http://www.sourcingmap.com/pci-rs232...l?currency=GBP look at the spec, says its compatible with vista.

I have had Mach3 running on my Vista 64bit machine but not tried a PCI parallel card before, pretty sure you will be able to one from somewhere. Get googling...


As for your plug and play system 4 kit, it may not be as plug and play as you think. There will be some wiring to do but the system4 should eliminate a quite a few wires, Roy's manuals are pretty easy to understand, even a complete electrical novice should be able to get one up and running if they take their time. If you do get stuck then ask away on the forum and I am sure someone will help.