Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: CNC scripting stuff....

On 17 May 2005, at 7:08 pm, lcdpublishing wrote:

> They were not CNC machines, they were NC machines, slight difference
> there. The first NC machine appeared at an IMTS show in Chicago
> right around 1955.

Presumably they ran APT code through a compiler on a mainframe to
generate a set of commands for a NC machine then? How were the early
NC machines controlled and how did they get the machining
instructions from the computer to the machine?

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