You talk about serial port..ing... We just ran into a good one. We replaced one
of our computers on our plant floor - Win98 with a W2k machine and ran into problems getting this machine to talk to the CNC lathes,mills and devices that
the Win98 machine had been talking to for years. We troubleshot a gazillion
things and come to find out that since we had a switch box so this machine could
talk to different CNC devices that it would not work through this setup. After
some research one of my colleques found that the signal W2k sends through the Com ports are not as strong as the Win98 machine, and I was told that this is
how good ole MS created it.. Most likey the same in XP. We eventually had to
dump the switch box and add on a serial port card so it could talk directly to
get it to work. Apparently the switch box produced just enough resistence that
it could read info from the CNC machine, but not send to it..
Thought this might help someone, sometine, somewhere
Jim Limburg
Javier Valencia wrote:
A couple of observations. After you have used XP for a while you will become accustomed and will not miss Win 98. By and large, I have been able to run most DOS programs without too much problem. PS2 to USB adapters are expensive, you are better off buying a new external mouse and keyboard. I use a cordless, optical mouse (Logitech) and I like it a lot, you can also buy it as part of a set that includes the keyboard. I do miss the Serial port though, as I have used this port to interface with testing equipment for the last 15 years. Best of luck and enjoy XP.
Javier Valencia, PE President Valencia Technology Group, L.L.C. 14315 S. Twilight Ln., Suite #14 Olathe, KS 66062-4571 (913)829-0888 (913)649-2904 FAX
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Thank you so very much, everyone, for your responses. I read them all. I see now that NTFS isn't going to be a problem. I appreciated hearing from people that they run all RBase DOS versions, because I will be trying to load every version I have, going back to 2.11. I realize that there will be problems to deal with, but at least it will RUN. I didn't reformat the drive yet, so I will forge ahead.
Boy, my first 24 hours with XP -- yuck! My Zip drive caused a total lockup, so in search of new drivers for that. My version of Laplink which I hoped to use to transfer files won't install properly. There's no PS/2 port for my external mouse and keyboard (I have a y-cable) so I'll be in search for USB models or an adapter. I guess an XP computer is fine if it's your first, or it's an add on. But trying to replace a Win98 machine to make it your primary business machines is gonna take a long time!
Karen
