Stuart Stevenson wrote: > I ran a long process and post on MicroVAX. The geometry was very > complex. The hard drive was a large 51mb. I think it had 8meg memory. > I broke my file into about 50 sections. I had to write a script to > process the file, collect the log, erase the .pr file, post the file, > erase the .cl and .pr1 files, write the log and .pu1 (the gcode file) > to a tk50, erase the log and .pu1 files and start on the next section. > It took all weekend to complete (about 36 hours). This same file will > process and post in less than 1 minute today. > The resulting gcode file was 1/4 of the total cuts. I had to rotate > and repeat to cut the part. > Back in 1986 when I got my Micro-VAX at home, it was like a rocket, and left the BEST PCs in the dust. The last hard drive I had on it was a dumpster diving 4 GB SCSI drive, it finally died last year, fortunately I got the last really important stuff off it before then. I'm still amazed at how far PCs have come in somewhat over 20 years.
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