I have a very old, DOS-based, laser instrument for which I would like to run its analysis package, DataVIEW version 1.1 by Aerometrics (circa 1996) in emulation on a faster PC.

This would be a program that basically just reads files originating from a Phase Doppler Particle Analyzer (PDPA) instrument and makes reports with graphs from them. It doesn't have to control the instrument itself, just crunch the numbers and issue the same reports.

So what I'm wondering is whether anybody has previously had luck with such non-game softwares in DOS-Box. Barring that might they have alternate recomendations.

I'd like to try getting it going myself. But if that should fail, then I expect my company would not be in the least adverse to hiring a consultant from this group to assist.

Before I shoot my mouth off in a meeting to propose it though, might somebody tell me whether any such thing has been, or could even be, accomplished using DOS Box and other such non-game softwares?

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Secondly, as a further step, controlling the instrument itself is done via an interface card that plugs into an ISA slot on this old DOS machine. Has anyone made use of PCI-to-ISA bridge cards for outboard ISA card cages? I know such items exist. Has anyone here made use of one?

Thanks you,

Gan Uesli Starling
Test Engineer
Woodward FST
Zeeland MI USA