Thank you everyone who offered advice. It turned out that my hardware was good...I had to delete the com port from Device Driver and reset it to Com P...

I'm not sure what you just said... I have connected the data cable to the exact same usb port on the back of the computer, and now cannot transfer dat...

I don't miss that part of having an office. Before the depression killed us here on MD's Eastern Shore, I had that crap twice a month. Just my $0.02,w...

the DEVIL you can't fire them!

I don't know enough about it to argue with anyone, except to say that this setup worked perfect for years, and I have tried to resurrect it with the e...

Jeff,I had to go to Start/Control Panel/System/Hardware/Device Manager.The Ports(Com & LPT) revealed no problem that I could see - the baud rate/b...

Jerry, it is a 9-pin cable adapted to a USB male-end cable. (I think that's what you asked).Thanks again,Brian Dennis