New computer ?

[Peter Howell 1Participant @peterhowell1]

My old desktop computer – Windows XP, running Mach3 has finally expired. Advice on a new machine and getting Mach3 to run, my mill is connected to the parallel printer port.

Any advice gratefully received.

Peter

[EmgeeParticipant @emgee]

I bought an older Dell from eBay that had WinXP loaded with the port to run Mach3 and serial port for my Emco machines, runs other programs without trouble, clearly best not to have it connected to the net but for a workshop computer it works fine.

Cost I believe was around £60 which included a wired mouse and keyboard + flat screen monitor.

Emgee

 

[Harry WilkesParticipant @harrywilkes58467]

Peter where I live we have a couple of computer shop that sell pre-owned machine it’s a bit safer than ebay you can see them working before purchase.

H

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

I also got a reconditioned XP machine from ebay , about £50 and just use that for the CNC Though I can use a USB for Mach3

[JasonB]

On JasonB Said:

I also got a reconditioned XP machine from ebay , about £50 and just use that for the CNC Though I can use a USB for Mach3

How do you connect through USB?

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

The Breakout board on the CNC has a USB Socket rather than a parallel.

 

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