Thanks for the advice the adapter works OK, this topic often arises on the Emco and Denford forums when using old machines that need the Serial link for communications. Now to see if I can remember how to run the mill and cut a few parts. It is a full working sample of the program, but is limited in the length of time that you can. Filling in this form is a request for permission to try out a limited run trial of DeskCNC. You will receive instructions by e-mail to down load the DeskCNC Demo. Homemade DeskCNC milling machine only 60kg. I thought it would be worth mentioning in case others have come across a similar problem. Please fill out the following form, and click Submit Form. Which seems to work nicely with the in-built driver options that Win10 provides.
Manuals and tutorials can be download for free remote online training. So, after much frustrating effort, including managing to get one of the adapters to sort-of work with an old driver, I bit the bullet and bought a new adapter, one of these: Foamlinx LLC designes and manufactures CNC hot wire foam cutters, CNC sign cutters and custom CNC routers for cutting and machining foam, wood, plastics, acrylics and light metals. I had 2 of these lying around that I spent much time & effort on, unsuccessfully - mostly due to hardware in the adapters that was too old to have any drivers that would run on Windows 10. The mill has been gathering dust since we moved to Scotland in 2014 and I have only recently been resurrecting the PC side - the original laptop that I used had a serial (COM) port, which is long gone from modern spec PCs, so a major hurdle was to find a suitable USB-to-serial adapter that would do the job.
I converted my Taig CNC mill some years ago to make use of DeskCNC as the controller software/hardware (writeups were in MEW at the time).