vista - parallele port = help

[HiltonSteve]

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.

[Dan Brown]

Thanks for the link m8, i had done a bit of googling but kept on finding people on yahoo answeres saying that they had no joy and the same story with maplins

That one you've shown me looks great

[Dan Brown]

as for wiring thats not a problem as long as i've the backup/instructions/knowlage to wire from a to b thats fine, its when people start talking about testing the wot-nots and the fing-um-ine-bobs from here to f++k knows where that my brain starts melting

as for the mechanics of the actual machine no problem, thats more my realm