Hi er! Goofed did not have the starmill power up. Thought power supply was on!!!! Now have connection. Thanks for all your help so far.

I may be back!!!!!!!!!!

Cheers Keith

Me back again. I think I have now sorted out the cables for our starmill and I booted from a win98 dos boot floppy. I got a screen full of messages about softwareand drivers being loaded. Fine until message 'initialising mint3.28' followed by flashing curser - dead stop. Should our machine - it is a...

Most desktop machines can have a 3.5 drive fitted and they are very cheap.

Found one reason for not working one of the two 25 to 9 pins cables, I was using is not a standard Rs232. stuck until I can get another next week. Will keep u posted. Thanks for the help so far. O yes I will be back for more PROBABLY

Cheers

Keith Wright

disks are not bootable - Post Processor disc has install prog that works in Dos - Starmill PC disc (Ver 2.86) has install.1 file that does not do anything. I have the original Denford documentation. It says to copy file to Hard drive. Not clear about the cable thread u sent me to, but I have IBM sta...

Restarting in Dos mode from shutdown menu. checking cables soon.

The computer is operating on Windows 98 and has two com ports.

:?: Has anyone got a Starmill PC and if so what software. We have got Ver 2.86. I can not get my computer to talk to the Starmill - when I start the Dos programme I get a message about no keyboard and loading and unloading rs232. We have 2 discs STARMILL P.C. Version 2.86 and Post Processor Librarie...