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Mach Discussion => General Mach Discussion => Topic started by: mikemill on November 23, 2009, 01:20:06 PM

Title: USB Connection
Post by: mikemill on November 23, 2009, 01:20:06 PM

A friend has given me a PC which I would like to use as a backup to the PC that runs my mill, but new PC doesn't havea serial printer port only USB. I have looked through previous posts on USB connection but last was 2007.
Can you advise on current arrangement for connection from PC to machine via USB
Thanks

Mike

Title: Re: USB Connection
Post by: Jeff_Birt on November 23, 2009, 01:38:43 PM

If you are wanting to run your machine via a USB port instead of the parallel port your best option is the SmoothSteppr: http://soigeneris.com/Warp9.aspx (yes a shameless plug on my part). It replicates two full parallel ports worth of I/O (plus it has a Port 3 as well) and works great with Mach.