Working with serial data

Hi All
I'm from Australia and have a DSO-2090 on trial for a week and am also quite impressed, I note that I can purchase from EBay for A$318 including postage.
I would like to trap a single string from a serial port and am not sure how to set up the capture and have to date put a loop in VB and trimmed it to a singe byte. This is to program the EEPROM in an 18x Picaxe via VB5 and am using it to trace the data from and too, if anyone has experience in this area please write.

 

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