Hey guys... I'm not a big tech guru like alot of people on this list.. I'm more of a software type of guy / anything dealing with audio so these questions may sound extremly basic to a few people but here we go anyways. I got a new graphing calculator for Xams along with graph link cables to hook it up to my comp. I want to load this guy up with proggies so bad but the problem is I can't for some reason. I can't remember what parallel ports I have used and what are free and I aslo cant seem to find that out except that my modem is com2. There is one free port on the back of my comp so I figured Id hook it up to that one. I did and the Calcualtor showed that it was hooked up fine. So then I went into my calculator software and tried reading from my calc screen with differnt settings. Tried port 1, then 2 the 3 then 4. None worked. No luck... I fiddled around with loads of things to no avail and I dont have any ideas at the moment. I know this isnt exzatly a normal computer question but I figured you guys might be able to help. Any suggestions would be extreamly appreciated. Thanks. Ralph ======================================== Avenir Web's Computers Mailing List List Modes, Subscription, and General Info: Go to //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/webpage?webpage_id=11 List Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/computers Administrative Contact: weez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Get computer help: http://avenir.dhs.org ========================================