<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>I needed my AMA number cut in vinyl, I recently used the last one I had from years ago. I own an old Roland Stika vinyl cutter, and I actually found the original 3.5" floppy install disks. I held on to an old Compaq laptop running Windows Me, so I plugged it in and the darn thing booted up. I installed the software, and after a little fooling about with the serial port settings, actually got the cutter to work. It has been a long time since I had to fool with baud rate, parity, and handshaking. Today's USB and Bluetooth technology make it too easy.</span></div><div></div><div> </div><div>Bob Kane<br>getterflash@yahoo.com</div></div></body></html>