I have a Motionmaster 4 axis router with a 8040 control. When I first got it in 03 one of my epole built a cable and linked it into an old laptop with a serial to USB adapter. It worked for several years, then when I got a new Toshiba he somehow switched it over to work on the Toshiba, again severall years of troublefree service.

Now the Toshiba died and is off for a few weeks, the original laptop is long gone, and we can't get either of two avauilable Lenovo laptops to communicate with the 8040 on the same cable usiong the same WinDNC software as always used. What might we be missing?

Also- is there any back door way to get a file into the controller- we pulled the 20mb card and it externally appears to be a PCMIA card and fits into a laptop slot but then it's contents can't be read or worked with. We have two jobs already piled up in front of the router and it could take hours to hand type the 100 line programs in.