Re: stepper etc "unlurking"

Chris,
On the floppy stepper connections. Would you mind repeating that info.
Are they on the drive's contoller cable connector or an internal one?
I have two 5-1/4" drives ready to hack up for cnc trials. TIA Rich Dean

Chris Paine wrote:

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> From: "Chris Paine" <chris@...>
>
> Hello to the list, I enjoy reading all the odd topics that crop up here
> (never heard of water jet cutting before). I have an "antique" lever type
> capstan (1907 patent brown &sharpe no.0) and a drummond "barrell lathe"
> (slotted cast iron tube for a bed),neither ideal but modifiable. I got a
> book from the library "how to use linux" and was suprised they had the disk
> for it, caldera version 1.3 and amazed it is the 2.035 kernel.Ive got it
> running on a second hard disk with a dual boot (lilo) I cant say without
> problems but most problems are just from not reading the book. ill try the
> rt patch and emc when I can use linux a bit
> My current project is to use the connection info from Arne Chr jorgensens
> message :" battery charger for supply" to connect a floppy drive up to try
> out stepster (I never realised the stepper connections are on the edge
> connector) Then I have to find something with a bit more torque
> Chris Paine in Sussex England
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