A list of possible approaches includes: 1) AIM*Historian plus our Alarm Management package (PAS's PlantState Suite with some enhancements for better integration www.pas.com or talk to your account manager or service sales manager) 2) LogMate from TiPS, Inc (http://www.tipsweb.com/products/logmate/) 3) iMac from ICS (http://www.ics-ltd.co.uk/) 4) Process Guard from Matrikon (http://www.matrikon.com/products/processguard/) I'm sure that there are other options, but no one should be using a printer. Regards, Alex Johnson Invensys Systems, Inc. 10707 Haddington Houston, TX 77063 +1 713 722 2859 (voice) +1 713 932 0222 (fax) +1 713 722 2700 (switchboard) alex.johnson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of brad.s.wilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 2:26 PM To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [foxboro] Alarms one line I'm unfamiliar with this " imac " application. We have been without alarm retention for a long time (since noone would maintain our printers) and I keep meaning to put a PC in place. Although I realize that collecting text data over a serial port is not rocket science, the only application I've ever seen doing this is ProComm ... and that was a few years ago. What cheap and easy methods are there for this? Brad Wilson ExxonMobil Chemical Co Edison Synthetics Plant 732-321-6115 732-321-6177 fax Brad.S.Wilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________________________________ 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