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IN an act of despiration I booted up windows 98 on an older laptop. For some reason your code does not turn on my bill acceptor. From what I know the bill acceptor needs power from the serial port which must be activated from the PC. It is the 4th pin on the serial cable and is known as DTR. I know ...

Thank you for the response, but no luck so far. I copied your code into a new *.BAS file and ran it and the screen never changed at all to reflect a dollar was inserted into my bill collector. I'm pretty sure my hardware works right. I read on another forum: http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qi...

So I am TRYING to help our local photographic museum, http://www.lightfactory.org/exhibitions/index.htm with a little fundraiser for their self portrait exhibition starting a mere 13 days from now. They want to have a photobooth as a fundraiser, which is easy enough for me to supply, I am a professi...