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Hi Crossbow, Thank again.  I certainly would like to buy legit software and cables if possible and not prohibitively expensive, but I have sent two website enquiries and two emails to Omron Asia Pacific now and have yet to receive any reply at all.  (If anyone reading this has contacts with Omron AP, please put a rocket under them!  This is not a good way to encourage someone trying to learn to use their products...) I managed to purchase a used CPM1A-30CDT-D and 20 EDT (CP1A) Expansion I/O Unit for AUD89.00 delivered.  Unfortunately, until I can find some suitable software and cable, it will remain an interesting paper weight.

Thanks for you help, Crossbow. I downloaded (I think) a copy of SYSWIN as part of an online PLC tutorial book (http://www.mikroe.com/old/books/plcbook/plcbook.htm).  However, I can't get it to install on my Windows 7 Toshiba laptop, even in 'XP compatible mode'.  Do you know here I could get a legal copy of SYSWIN that will run under Win 7? Other posts on here suggest CX-Programmer is now part of CX-One, the 'all singing, all dancing' version of Omron software that is beyond the means of your average tinkerer.  Is it possible to buy a legal copy of CX-Programmer, albeit obsolete, that will let me access all the functions of the CPM1A? I have seen a USB version of the  CQM1-CIF02 on eBay from Hong Kong (yes, I know! - but it's cheap enough to give it a try) Thanks again, Ian