thommyt
01-10-2004, 12:49 AM
I have probably missed an earlier discussion of this, but I am easily confused and new to ShopBotting and use of Forums. Please pardon my ignorance.
I am about to hook up a PRT96 I bought in April '01 and because life had other plans am only now getting around to fooling with it. It's been set up for most of that time, but never hooked up and run.
I am using a Gateway GP7-450 (P3 450Mhz) for design, plan to install v3 on that.
Using a generic P-S 120 Mhz for shopbot complicator, plan to install v2 on that.
Any suggestions whether to run in DOS only, or install Windows98 and run in DOS mode. Might make downloading newer files from ShopBot easier and perhaps managing files easier on the shop complicator (it's been 23 years since I worked in DOS).
Are there ad or disadvantages to going the Windows98 route on an older slower complicator rather than just install DOS only and run in that? Either way, I would run v2 because the shop complicator is so slow (120 Mhz)it couldn't handle v3 I don't think.
Thanks, I look forward to diving in and hope to one day actually contribute to this forum.
I am about to hook up a PRT96 I bought in April '01 and because life had other plans am only now getting around to fooling with it. It's been set up for most of that time, but never hooked up and run.
I am using a Gateway GP7-450 (P3 450Mhz) for design, plan to install v3 on that.
Using a generic P-S 120 Mhz for shopbot complicator, plan to install v2 on that.
Any suggestions whether to run in DOS only, or install Windows98 and run in DOS mode. Might make downloading newer files from ShopBot easier and perhaps managing files easier on the shop complicator (it's been 23 years since I worked in DOS).
Are there ad or disadvantages to going the Windows98 route on an older slower complicator rather than just install DOS only and run in that? Either way, I would run v2 because the shop complicator is so slow (120 Mhz)it couldn't handle v3 I don't think.
Thanks, I look forward to diving in and hope to one day actually contribute to this forum.