Hi guys. It finally happened and our old computer has cratered and I need to get back up and running. I am not a guru with this and have done some searching but just can seem to find the right answers.
I thought if I just got a 25 pin to usb conversion and fired up the old laptop everything would be ok but seems I was way wrong.
Our plasma system is a precision cutting system
Has the stand alone motion controller
Hypertherm torch height control
The original computer will fire up long enough for me to pull all of the mach 3 information and license so i transferred to flash drive and loaded on to a laptop we had running xp. No serial port on laptop so I purchased an adapter and then read the adapters will not run with the mach 3 system as would a printer.
Is my best bet to find an old tower with a serial port and xp and load my mach 3 to it or is their more to it than this. Im really struggling any help would be appreciated. Thanks