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I recently was tasked with migrating an old (working) industrial station that is using a Square D SY/MAX 400 PLC.
The company I work for has a copy of the Sy/Mate Plus Ver. 2.06 programming software from a similar project many, many years ago but the last person who worked with this software has been retired for quite some time.
I am trying to download the program so I can look through the logic and re-write it for a different controller, preferably to an Allen Bradley (my bread and butter brand) or Modicon (closest successor to Square D?) if it would be easier.
Can anyone who has worked with this sort of controller give me some recommendations? The software is DOS based so I have tried running it with DOSBox on Win 8.1, on a Win95 VM with serial pass-through and on an old IBM Thinkpad that has a dual-boot with Win2000 and Win98; all to no avail. I keep receiving the connection error when I try to go online with the controller.
Literature and online resources are limited regarding this controller and software suite and even the docs I found didn't provide the details I was looking for. I have not worked with this particular controller/software before so any input/tips would be great. Thanks.
The company I work for has a copy of the Sy/Mate Plus Ver. 2.06 programming software from a similar project many, many years ago but the last person who worked with this software has been retired for quite some time.
I am trying to download the program so I can look through the logic and re-write it for a different controller, preferably to an Allen Bradley (my bread and butter brand) or Modicon (closest successor to Square D?) if it would be easier.
Can anyone who has worked with this sort of controller give me some recommendations? The software is DOS based so I have tried running it with DOSBox on Win 8.1, on a Win95 VM with serial pass-through and on an old IBM Thinkpad that has a dual-boot with Win2000 and Win98; all to no avail. I keep receiving the connection error when I try to go online with the controller.
Literature and online resources are limited regarding this controller and software suite and even the docs I found didn't provide the details I was looking for. I have not worked with this particular controller/software before so any input/tips would be great. Thanks.