OT: Small / light NOT expensive PC with RS-232 port

The app is a label printer software that is "hardwired" to the serial port. If one takes a blank hard drive and installs Win2000, and then installs the label printer software, it works. NOTE: no device manager fiddling, no device needed at COM1 during boot-up; this is raw stuff.

Disheartened to hear that. I really, really appreciate craigslists as one of the few websites that still provides information rather than 'pretty'

Was that spam to your personal email account, which was NOT listed? or to your personal email account, which WAS listed? or to your personal email account back through the 'blind' reply address?

If that's your only problem with Craigs List, just use a throw-away email account.

You are making even less sense than usual. If it will work on Win2k I can't immediately think of any reason why it won't work on XP.

Old DOS code bit banging parallel ports for vintage Eprom programmers under later versions of Doze became increasingly fraught and difficult. But a program written to run under Windows should more or less work OK.

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Martin Brown

I know wasting money is not what we want to do very often.

But it seems that going thru all these machinations is costing you more then the cost of a new USB label printer.

Is there a current label printer that will do what this precious printer will do ?

Just wanted to know.

hamilton

You should be able to download either. You did save the license keys from the disks you discarded?

FWIW, I recently tried to install win98 on a 2006 vintage computer. Had driver issues out the ying-yang. Wasn't worth the trouble.

If you don't have a throw-away email address for such things, you're not trying.

Craigslist has gone the way of EBAY. At first, ordinary people sold stuff at rational prices. Now, it's all commercial vendors with stuff priced way out of reach for used crap. Ordinary people see those prices and emulate. Was good while it lasted.

There are plenty of PCIe RS232 cards out there... that give you exactly that.. or simply a PCI card, what ever your system has in it.

Go to

and look for serial cards..

W2k does not allow direct port access with out some help. So it that software works as you say, then you're having other issues.

W2k does install default serial drivers when it see's the hardware at install and like most oses, when you add it later, it'll install it.

Jamie

I think your real problem is that you have something else assigned to a comport on a machine and your software isn't seeing it..

Also, the comport assignment number the OS gives your port, after it has seen other devices like modems, faxes etc, maybe to high..

Lots of older software only understood up to COM4 some only up to COM2..

You can re'assign these numbers..

Jamie

Den tirsdag den 4. februar 2014 00.59.18 UTC+1 skrev Maynard A. Philbrook Jr.:

It's been a long time since I've had any software old enough to directly access the uart, but I seem to remember that windows was smart enough to allow access to the the standard uart addresses

-Lasse

Don't know where you are but a store near me (Silicon Valley) has a load of small desktops, with serial ports, and older versions of Windows. that they sell inexpensively. Mostly Compaq and Dell systems. They have an on-line presence but they don't sell the computers online.

Yes, 98 and down..

Jamie

LESSEE...

1) I said NOTHING about not working in XP; in fact it works in Win2K, XP and Win7. 2) I said NOTHING about parallel and NOTHING about bit banging. Get your fax rite.

Have not found one; this one uses label tapes good to 200C.

• Shoot me; i did not.

• In my case that would not be a problem; 640x40 CGA video is good enough and the rest is do not care.

• NOPE; i SAID it works - and on COM1.

• i SAID *no* modem(s), which implies NO fax; in fact i said NOTHING connected to the com port(s) in the symple-minded initial-from-scratch case - and the printer worked on COM1.

Maybe in the OS; no way of telling about repercussions regarding the printer.

WOW, thats a good reason !!

software

Hadn't heard of it before. That is why i was suggesting a whole VM. This may let OP use his antique software on XP (natural or virtual).

?-)

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lines.

luck.

I realize that you do not have spare cash to toss around. For me, it would be time to buy a new label printer. My current one runs nicely in XP and Win7. Handles lots of label sizes as well.

?-)