Re: About to start building a CNC wood router

I have a couple old Compac Luncboxes.

8088 ? monochrome. 64k ram ?

I'd say dinosaur, but there is nothing terrible about those lizzards.

Dave

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, JanRwl@A... wrote:
> In a message dated 5/10/2003 2:40:20 AM Central Standard Time,
> madyn@i... writes:
>
> > Do I sense a little nerd solidarity forming here? :-) Would it
help you to
> > know that I still have a TS1000 with ZX81 motherboard?
>
> This little "boast" at first inspired a sudden need to ADD to the
jocularity,
> as I have THREE CMB PET's running "CNC stuff" in my office, lab,
and shop! (I
> have discarded a good dozen 8032's in recent years! The old PET's
were much,
> much more reliable!) I hasten to admit, however, as soon as
the "PC" came
> to be, I immediately figured out ways to make the "parallel printer-
port" on
> those "do the same thing" (and that has some advantages, though
later PCs'
> clock-frequencies are SO fast on some of the later ones that it
takes some
> changes in the "delay-loop subroutine" so that the "machine-code
patch" is
> not 100% interchangeable among all PC's.
>
> Now, in all seriousness: One of the most useful "PC's" to run a
small
> home-brew CNC lathe or mill happens to be the long-discontinued
Tandy 1500HD
> "laptop" ('91-'92?), with wall-wart connected, as ALL the ni-cad
packs for
> those have long ago passed away. (Price a NEW replacement, and YOU
will pass
> away!) That is a no-nonsense monochrome MSDOS mouseless little
computer with
> sufficient clock-speed for ANY home-brew CNC purposes; it is
compact, NO
> "wasted real-estate" with mouse-pad nor separate keyboard and
monitor, as has
> a "desktop". Trouble is, THEY JUS' AIN'T NO MORE of 'em! I got
the last
> four I could find on e-bay, and three of those are NG (but
maybe "for
> parts"?)
>
> So... Any wizards out there know a practical mouseless monochrome
laptop
> running MSDOS/GWBASIC which we can find for less than $50 (well,
not incl.
> postage!)???
>
> Discuss? Jan Rowland
>
>
>
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