Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Smart/Dumb box again...

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From: "Jon Elson" <jmelson@...>
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Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 6:40 AM
Subject: Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Smart/Dumb box again...


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> dkowalcz@... wrote:
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> > To all,
> >
> > Had a thought today (dangerous, I know..!) Back to that black box
> > we were discussing a month or two ago...
> >
> > Instead of using special hardware - how about, say, running a tight
> > assembler program on an old 386 or 486 PC to do two things:
> >
> > - Read tokenized commands from the COM port
> > - Control steppers, limit switches on the parallel port
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> Way too much junk. I already have done it, in one chip! (Of course,
> it is a fairly big chip, but only costs $18.)
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> Jon
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