Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] recycling computers

Hi Jon:
      I will check out an old unit I had about fifteen years ago when I purchased my Backtrack CNC mill.  I run into problems with the software and never got it going because of health issues.(hit by a car while walking)  Did these not have a small round battery on the mother board.  That went dead on mine.  I talked with you at the CNC WORKSHOP about my NOS 1978 lathe with servo motors.
                                                                                                        GOD'S BLESSINGS
                                                                                                              Bill Thomas
                   

On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 13:39:08 -0600, Jon Elson wrote

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>
> ebiz_59 wrote:
> > I started to clean up a pile of computers that I've been acquiring for last dozen years.
> Hey, if you have a 286, I'd be real interested in the motherboard only.
> I have a pick and place machine
> that has a 286 in it (has a little cast aluminum heat sink on the CPU)
> and I had already dumped all that
> ancient junk when I got this machine. It still works fine, but you
> never know when something might go
> out on it. it is not upgradeable, it is a 286, but not a PC. It has a
> board about 18" square with big
> rows of EPROMS and battery-backed SRAMS. The architecture is not that
> far from a PC, but there's
> no OS, no ISA slots, etc.
>
> Jon
>
>

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