[Techtoolslist] Computer systems

[Bob Economaki]

Prolific stopped support with Windows 8.1 - Windows 10.

You can successfully install your old USB-to-Serial adapter based on the 
Profilic PL-2303HXA & PL-2303X chipsets on Windows 8, Windows 8.1 and 
Windows 10 operating systems.
Find the old driver version 3.3.2.102 dated 24/09/2008. Manually install 
the driver via Device Manager.

FYI
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-hardware/prolific-usb-to-serial-comm-port-windows-10/0a4f8e48-7135-4434-9d10-349c9ce87fcf?auth=1&page=3

On 3/17/2020 6:00 PM, Tony Jones via Techtoolslist wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2020, 3:45 PM Kevin Moore <talon.k at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Well it finally happened, my old WinXp machine passed away. I used it for
>> my 9010a and older eprom burners.
>>
>> Do you guys still build old Dos boxes to run this hardware that needs old
>> DB9 DB25 serial i/o etc.
>>
>> Or are you building some fancy new systems?
>>
> I run Windows7 32bit on my laptop together with an FTDI USB to serial
> adapter.  Works fine talking to a 9010a and 29b upto 9600bps   I've not
> been able to get the FTDI adapter to work with DosBox on Windows x86_64 and
> you need DosBox if you want to run FIDE on x86_64 as the underlying Fluke
> binaries it relies on require native 32bit.  If you're doing native serial
> transfers using putty etc, its a non-issue.
>
> I couldn't get the Prolific USB serial adapters to work period, stick to
> FTDI based chipsets.
>
> Good luck.
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