At 01:40 PM 1/3/2009, you wrote:
>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.
>
>Jon
Jon,
You sure you didn't bring home a Vax workstation? I had a
bunch of those, and they were built in the pizza box config that the
early desktops were like. The Micro-Vax was still a server, though
it was a bit smaller than the 6000 series...
Mark
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