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They go together like peanut butter and jelly, hammer and nails, salt and pepper, Painter and Graphic Tablets.

Over the years I have used everything from a 4x5 Wacom Artz to my current (touch it and you die) Cintiq 21" LCD Tablet.

With that in mind I and created a little page on my website explaining some of the different models, old and new of the Wacom Tablets and what to look for when buying and using.

http://www.motorsportsartist.com/wacom_info.html
 

David...

Thanks for the info on your web site.

I have an old intuous 2 with serial hookup that I love and have done many illustrations with since around '94 or '95.

The serial hookup is (as you implied) becoming a problem. Because I do some animation stuff and 3D stuff I am beefing up my system to a quad core and will go to Windows XP64 pro (I think you were using Macs... my condolences) to allow accessing up to 4-8 gigs of ram. The old tablet with serial connect is not compatible with that OS, (according to the Wacom site) - and, they say adaptors (serial to USB) are not "supported."

Was wondering if you have any experience with this or advice for work-arounds. I don't really look forward to getting a new tablet just for this reason.

Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

I'm sorry I can't help with your tablet workaround but I'm hoping you would be kind enough to let me know how you get on with XP 64 because I'm thinking about upgrading soon; just dithering because of compatibility worries.

Tina

PS Why not splurge on the new Wacom Cintiq 12WX - object of my desire, this month.