On Dec 5, 5:44*pm, Karl Townsend
wrote:
Thanks for the advice. I've been trying all day. The install error I'm
getting is from the CD. I found a step by step guide and I'm doing it
right. My old CD has a bad spot.

This may be dangerous, I'm downloading a new bootable CD from pirate
bay. I'll try it with my licence tonight.

I do have a second old 'puter here. It runs XP and has my control,
ACAD, mastercam, and some special visual basic apps on it. The second
two are home copies from when my son had legal access. None of this
stuff runs on W7. My goal here is long term - I need to be able to run
my shop stuff on new computers as the old ones die.

Thanks for the advice

Karl

One more thing: There will be computers capable of running XP pretty
much forever. There are a lot of people in your boat, and there will
always be machines to run that stuff on. They may not be cheap, but
they exist. Meanwhile, you ought to go to the local salvage yard or
Goodwill or Salvation Army and pick up a couple of machines for a
rainy day. Again, you could come here and take your pick - actually
you could take them all, my wife would thank you for it.:-)

But I'm still waiting to see the cnc apple peeler video.