Help needed in getting a ULS-25 running

[TheBigCahoona]

I purchased a used Universal ULS-25 many years ago. Health issues, a move and other changes happened so it was never fully running, just a test pattern was run. I have time and a need to get this running. It came with Solustan Inc. LinkMotion software VC-CAM and Laser VC & Bds. The computer is running Win XP and is set up with a old style serial printer cable. Today I tried to send a test drawing through the ULS-25 printer driver to run the machine using the LinkMotion software, but I must be missing something because I don't see the file getting transferred to the buffer. The Laser's manual was written for Win 3.1 so it's no help, Universal won't touch it with a 20 foot pole. Solustan Inc won't answer my emails after they refused to help other than buy new hardware/software from them. Why would I do that if I don't even know if the machine runs?

Any thought of how to trouble shoot this?

I do have a very old computer that I could install Win 3.1 on if I had to, but would like to use a modern version of CorelDraw to do my work.