Brad, PCS offers an alarm capture software package called "Hawk" that can = replace one or two typers for most DCS systems including I/A using a PC. = Contact me off list if you'd like more information. *K > -----Original Message----- > From: brad.s.wilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx=20 > [mailto:brad.s.wilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 8:26 AM > To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: [foxboro] Alarms one line >=20 >=20 > I'm unfamiliar with this " imac " application. We have been=20 > without alarm > retention for a long time (since noone would maintain our=20 > printers) and I > keep meaning to put a PC in place. Although I realize that=20 > collecting text > data over a serial port is not rocket science, the only=20 > application I've > ever seen doing this is ProComm ... and that was a few years=20 > ago. What > cheap and easy methods are there for this? >=20 > Brad Wilson > ExxonMobil Chemical Co > Edison Synthetics Plant > 732-321-6115 > 732-321-6177 fax > Brad.S.Wilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx >=20 > =20 > =20 > ______________________________________________________________ > _________ > This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by=20 > Invensys Process > Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you=20 > obtain here at > your own risks. Read=20 > http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html > =20 > foxboro mailing list: =20 > //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro > to subscribe: =20 > mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=3Djoin > to unsubscribe: =20 > mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=3Dleave > =20 >=20 _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html foxboro mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave