I am mostly an NG and Pro programmer but have had to recently program a 1000 and several 2000's and have had no luck due to the fact that i have no proper connection on my laptop its a new Toshiba. I need to find some way to make a connection from my laptop to the 2000/1000 using usb/serial etc. just not DB9 well not coming directly from the computer anyway. There has to be an answer i tried buying a DB9 converted to a serial and that didn't work maybe that should have been obvious to me but it wasn't! so any help would be very much appreciated! thanks to all ahead of time.