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Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Anderson's Follies...

Posted by Jon Elson
on 2000-12-02 22:38:19 UTC
Jon Anderson wrote:

> I've posted here a number of times regarding my mysterious "lost step"
> problem, and a lot of folks have taken time and offered advise trying to
> help. Want to say thanks to everyone. I finally solved it I think (knock
> on wood). It appears Ahha had some problem with the computer, an HP
> Vectra P100. I moved the I/O card and files to a Digital 486/66, and
> have been running a former problem program for half an hour with not a
> trace of lost steps.
>
> Nice to make some progress finally...

Umm, the P100 means Pentium 100 MHz? If that's a Pentium classic,
it may have the floating point divide error! If the software doesn't have
the check for that, it could cause some VERY mystifying errors.

Jon

Discussion Thread

Jon Anderson 2000-12-02 20:21:40 UTC Anderson's Follies... Jon Elson 2000-12-02 22:38:19 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Anderson's Follies... machines@n... 2000-12-03 02:40:41 UTC Re: Anderson's Follies... Hugh Prescott 2000-12-03 08:54:10 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Anderson's Follies... Jon Anderson 2000-12-03 09:55:51 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Anderson's Follies... Jon Anderson 2000-12-03 09:57:37 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Anderson's Follies...