Yeah, the machine is a custom job. There are jumpers on the card, but none of them are associated with the interface to the computer, they are used only to regulate the data going in (The card measures an x and y position, the jumpers can be used to change this to read only x or only y)
The machine cards seem to work perfectly if only a single one is put into the computer. Since they're ISA cards (and thus notorious for not working well as PnP devices, i've tried my hand at playing with these in the bios and device manager but...)
-The computer doesn't recognize the cards in either of these places. There is no option to set a specific IRQ or DMA to a specific card, the bios gives the option to set a specific IRQ/DMA to: PCI/ISA PnP device or Legacy ISA device.
(Even when the IRQ/DMA's are set to be configured manually, there is no additional place to set which card corresponds to which IRQ/DMA (at least that we've found), the only innate windows software that even comes close to recognizing the cards is in device manager -> system -> ISAPNP read data port. The only configurable setting in this, howver are the I/O read addresses. Changing them doesn't seem to do anything.)
-The cards ARE, however recognized by the software that came with them, there are several pieces of information that are testable and show that the cards are taking at least some data from the outside world. The problem is that most of the data coming in goes bad when >1 card is put in the computer.