Hello,

I've recently bought a Harrison trainer.
Now i'm trying to transfer programs to and from the lathe to the pc but no joy.
Neither seems to see the other.
I have tried this to verify the com port on the pc:
modem on com port, the modem responds fine to any command in both windows and dos.
Also, the 9 pin rs232 connector on the side of the lathe is connected through a 5 pin connector to the mainboard, i turned this connector 180 degrees (as per the instructions in the manual in case of non working communications) but once again, no joy....

The software on the lathe sits there "waiting to send" and the pc software (the same) sits there "waiting to receive"

All i can think of is a malfunction in the lathe mainboard/rs232 connection.

I DID see some DOS command to get and put files to COM1 somewhere in the documentation that came with it but cannot find that again if my live depended on it.

Does anyone have any ideas?
COM port settings?
I have tried loads of baudrates and bit/parity settings to no avail.

I hope someone knows something about this as it is starting to drive me nuts!

Thanks in advance for any help at all.