UncleDavid218
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Hey guys,
I am working with a customer that has multiple CNC machines. The oldest one runs Windows 98 with a custom motherboard setup (It's a Fanuc). They need to add jobs to the machine and used to use a floppy drive, but the jobs are now bigger than the floppy drive can handle.
Unfortunately, the machine has no USB ports nor does it have regular PCI ports. It just has ISA and PS/2.
As far as I can tell there's no such thing as an ISA card with USB ports on it. But could you do an ISA card with a serial port and then get a serial -> USB cable?
Any other ideas? This machine was $200k so just replacing it isn't easy
BTW we have already tried networking the machine with no success, so that's not really an option either.
I am working with a customer that has multiple CNC machines. The oldest one runs Windows 98 with a custom motherboard setup (It's a Fanuc). They need to add jobs to the machine and used to use a floppy drive, but the jobs are now bigger than the floppy drive can handle.
Unfortunately, the machine has no USB ports nor does it have regular PCI ports. It just has ISA and PS/2.
As far as I can tell there's no such thing as an ISA card with USB ports on it. But could you do an ISA card with a serial port and then get a serial -> USB cable?
Any other ideas? This machine was $200k so just replacing it isn't easy
BTW we have already tried networking the machine with no success, so that's not really an option either.