Huge thanks for this post, it helped me get my TS-30 working on W10. I had some minor issues mentioned here in case this helps somebody:
1. On my W7 PC the firmware update became unresponsive, I had to go to Device Manager -> Right click on the computer -> Scan for hardware changes. After doing that I was able to assign the MDX40A driver as per the adhutton / Techsoft procedure, and after that the firmware update completed
2. On my W10 machine Vpanel did not work until I updated it to v110