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Have you tried running it in Virtual PC 2007? See this page. <http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=04D26402-3199-48A3-AFA2-2DC0B40A73B6&displaylang=en> It's free, but you may have to pay for some add-ons. We run Virtual PC on a Pentium 3 and it runs like a slow 486! Without even trying! We are running an OS/2 WARP 3 machine (actually an IsoChrom) under Windows 2000. There is a parallel port available because we print through it. You use the one on the host computer and turn it on and off in the software. I couldn't say whether it would be transparent enough for one of those Godforsaken dongles. Hil Jason Curtis wrote: > Here is a crazy question that will not pertain to most people with > modern mass spec operating systems! > > Has anyone ever experimented with or gotten PrismUp to run on a modern > computer using an emulator? I have got it to start using DosBox and > gotten the processor speed correct but it fails as the dongle can not > be read because DosBox does not support parallel ports. Any help or > suggestions of emulators would be great. > > I am running my Prism II mass spec with OS/2 Dual Inlet 2.4 > inside Parallels on an WinXP machine. My goal is to also run PrismUp > with an emulator inside Parallels on the same WinXP machine. This > will allow me to get rid of 2 aging and difficult to maintain computers. > > (For those who don't know and are curious, PrismUp is a DOS > translation program that VG used for some of its OS/2 based machines > in the mid 1990's. It runs on a dedicated computer that sits between > the mass spec microprocessor and the mass spec operating system. All > it does it translate commands and responses back and forth.) > > > Thanks in advance for any help. Jason > > > Jason Curtis, Ph.D. > > Stable Isotope Mass Spec Lab manager > > Associate-In Geochemistry > > Department of Geological Sciences > > 241 Williamson Hall > > University of Florida > > Gainesville, FL 32611 > > [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>, office 352-392-2296 > > lab 352-392-3344, fax 352-392-9294 > > -- Hilary Stuart-Williams PhD Research Officer - Stable Isotopes Environmental Biology Group Research School of Biological Sciences The Australian National University Acton, Canberra Australia ACT 2601 ------------------------ Office 61 02 6125 2099 Fax 61 02 6125 4919 Mobile 0421 905 478