RE: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: BDI candidates at NAMES .. boot from floppy?

Ken,

From personal experience you can run the BDI on a 166MHz box, I ran it on an
133 laptop for a while. You can create the necessary boot floppies from the
CD, the tools are included on the BDI cd. I don't remember what directory
they are in, but I have done this from the original BDI cd.

Running on a 166MHz computer will limit you to steppermod.o for your
steppers and will limit the maximum speeds you can get from the system. It
can be done and will give you a functional platform but not the greatest
performance.

John Guenther
Sterling, Virginia

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken Jenkins [mailto:kjenkins@...]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 3:40 PM
> To: CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: BDI candidates at NAMES .. boot from
> floppy?
>
>
> I'm coming up to NAMES this year with the hope of going away
> with a working EMC box. My candidate is a COMPAQ ProLinea 5166
> 166 mhz/32M RAM/2GB HD/CD/currently has W95 on board ($30).
> I haven't figured out how to tell it to boot from the CD yet
> however and I'm beginning to suspect it can't. Is it possible
> to boot from a floppy to get access to the CD, then go from there?
>
> Also does the above computer sound like it would be an ok
> platform for the BDI. I'll be doing straight S&D to steppers
> with no encoder feedback (4 axis).
>
> Ken Jenkins
> kjenkins@...
>
> > Yes Sir. About the same as last year. I am bringing the BDI victim,
> > but those Dell desktops are stackable and after Paul smokes it, we
> > can hide it under the table. ;-)
> >
> > Best Regards,
> >
> > Fred Smith
> > IMService
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> >
> >> We have posted a preview web page that those interested in this
> >> kind of software are welcome to visit.
> >>>
> >>> http://www.imsrv.com/rasterfratz/
> >>>
> >>> Any comments and feedback would be appreciated.
> >>>
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