Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: OT?:Who made the first PC based CNC control?

I was there too, Intermec bar-code systems used 4004 cpu's in their barcode
printers, later to use the 8008 cpu...data was downloaded thru a rs232 port,
some machines had label applicators and installed the label right onto the
box on a conveyor line. Mitz Altair, mountain, had one of the first outside
terminals to Kiwi Dartmouth Basic system....for research at a printing co. i
worked for. cul brian f.

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From: "Hugh Prescott" <hugh@...>
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Subject: Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: OT?:Who made the first PC based CNC
control?


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> Subject: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: OT?:Who made the first PC based CNC
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> > If I'm not mistaken, the 8 bit Intel 8000(?) and Zilog Z80 were
> > originally developed as machine control microprocessors.
>
> First came the 4004 then the 8080 and later the Z80
>
> Some
> > enterprizing guys (forget their name) designed the Altair which
> > could act as a "real" computer and sold it as a kit in the back of
> > Popular electronic Magazine. You booted it by flipping switches on
> > it front panel and looking at its pilot lights. They used a 100
> > contact bus (S-100) as they could pick up the connectors cheaply on
> > the surplus market.
>
> Dr. Ed Roberts, MD, MITs(Micro Instraumentation & Telemerty. IIRC he was
> in the Air Force (Flight Surgeon) and this was a sideline business in part
> for model rockets. Last report he is practicing medicine in GA.
>
> He built the orig that was published in PE but the freight company that
was
> used to ship it to PE lost the protptype and they used pictures that
Roberts
> had taken before shippint. The kits as shipped look quite different.
>
> After they got a few running a kid from MIT (the univerisity) walked in
the
> door with a BASIC interputer written on a PDP-8 and punched to a paper
tape,
> the rest of that is a whole nother storry of course.
>
> Hugh, was there almost at day one
> still have Altair 8080 serial # 110 and it still runs, use a P-4-2.4 GHz
for
> a terminal. Runs disk extended BASIC from a 385 K 8 inch floppy disk.
>
> Also have a spare and an IMSAI & NorthStar preserved as well as BYTE # 1
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