Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] RS-232 motion control card

On Fri Oct 4 12:54:35 2002, byrogyro69, <byronhatfield@...> wrote:

>I am very, very new to this stuff so bear with me. I am looking for
>a low cost motion controller card to run my Gecko drives. I am
>using BobCAD as my CAD and NC software and as far as I can determine
>it doesn't support the Parallel connection that the many of the
>boards for us penny pinchers use. Can anyone give me some info on
>this or knock me upside the head and ask me why I couldn't figure it
>out for myself?

I wouldn't mind seeing serial capability myself. I've got a Central Data SCSI
Terminal Server, which means 8 DB25 115200 Baud serial connectors _and_ a
parallel port. There's lots of other old server stuff out there that could be
put to good use here, too.

Bill

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