Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] laptop ( was Re: HELP: Bipolar stepper ciruit

In a message dated 1/7/2003 4:30:00 PM Central Standard Time,
wotisname@... writes:

>
> The last thing I wanted to do was upset an old Troll :-)) <<

Sorry, Terry, if I gave the impression I was "upset"! NOT the case! I was
simply confused.

>
> The term clock-work/steam-powered means old, I'm a Brit.<<

OK, I perceive the picture. But it was only built (completed) in '99! I
had thought someone (you) were perhaps using "clockwork" to indicate a degree
of precision. Nevermind!

>
> Is there some reason, besides the universal hate of Gates, that you don't
> use Win 3.1 on your machine and then use a Dos based control program. I
> have two 386 laptop machines and thought they couldn't handle a CNC
> machine. I also have a Harrison 280 CNC lathe which at present has a
> stepper tool-changer and servo motors X-Z axis. This machine appears to be
> very sick and in need of some sort of rebuild. It has an Acorn main board.
> I was thinking of converting to a P100 board and trying to figure how to
> run the servos using TurboCNC.<<

Win 95 and -98 also contain DOS. Only the recent Win XP doesn't "use" DOS.
The lathe's old laptop has (now) ONLY DOS 6.22. Works fine. ANY Windows is
NOT efficient, if possible, at all, for controlling via the printer-port (so
I understand). BASIC makes it very easy and efficient.

Sorry, I know NOTHING of the items you mention, following "...two 386
laptop..."


Jan R.




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