Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] newbe not a clue cnc small mill

At 12:07 PM 3/31/02 -0000, you wrote:

>drive the steppers from a parallel port using a cheep interface of
>simple ish design etc I have a background in electronics

Using I-LPT you can drive it thru printer cards on parallel. I use that
driver and it has been very good for me. You can either do what I did,
which was to write your own interface for the driver, or you can simply
send it command files by using DOS 'type > motor' command. In latter case
you need to compose your command files by hand. See BelFab URL in tagline
for the result of doing it my way.

Regards, Hoyt

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