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<div>A Stika with a serial port??!!!. Thought the early ones all had parallel ports. I managed to get mine running with Windows 7 with some freeware/abandonware sign cutting software. Let me know if you are interested.</div>
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From: Bob Kane <getterflash@yahoo.com><br>
To: nsrca <nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org><br>
Sent: Tue, Sep 10, 2013 8:40 pm<br>
Subject: [NSRCA-discussion] Trip down computer memory lane<br>
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<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>
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<div>Bob Kane<br>
<a href="mailto:getterflash@yahoo.com">getterflash@yahoo.com</a></div>
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