Quote Originally Posted by chris View Post
I am about to buy a refurb' PC off ebay to run the router using Mach 3. I was going to go for an IMB Thinkcentre with flat screen monitor, keyboard and mouse. Anything to look out for when buying an old desktop to run Mach 3 for 3d routing? They seem to come with windows XP or 7 depending on how much you spend. Is one better than the other for running Mach 3.
If the machine breakout board has the parallel port interface then you need a PC that has a parallel printer port otherwise you would need more hardware.