pic: Good use of a old cRio

[rockychat3]

We have been holding off on buying a second RoboRIO, but I had a few questions on ways we could save money. For context, we have two old 4-slot cRIOs no longer on working robots and we use Java. All of the students have only 2015 tools (Labview update and Eclipse) installed, but I have held back on upgrading software in case I am the only one who can still connect to a cRIO.

(1) Is it possible to have two versions of drivers station on the same PC?

(2) Is it possible to program the cRIO from Netbeans with the old plugins and the RoboRIO from Eclipse with the new plugins on the same PC?

(3) If we did buy a new RoboRIO, could we use a standard 20AMP slot on the old PDP to power it, saving us $200 on a new PDP (for internal/prototyping, not for competition)?

As a low to mid-budget team, I don't want to throw around that kind of money if we can get nearly the same benefit for less. Thanks

-andy / 4859