Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: DeskWinNC, GeckoG210, Bridgett

I was talking to someone not long ago who was telling me about the
good ol' days in the early 80s when not many job shops had any CNCs
you could still bid a job to run on a manual machine ,then actually
run it on one of those 25 ipm CNC machines and make a killing on it

Brian

On Thursday 10 May 2001 04:00, you wrote:
> Tim,
> We've sure come a LONG way since July '83!
>
> Ballendo
>
> P.S. Of course, the other side of that is the realisation that
> EVERYTHING MADE BEFORE JULY '83 was done at "snail pace", if these
> machines were used! (which brings up an interesting point) I wonder
> at what point(date wise) each material became "better" to do by cnc
> than the previous manual methods (including tracer mills,etc.)