2012/3/8 charles green <xxzzb...@yahoo.com>: > the machines i work with only have tape drives and serial ports, so all cam > files are sent over serial lines as text (ascii i think). failed controller > component replacement is a problem because the hardware platform does not > have long term stability. it seems that is an essential quality of the pc > realm - it is goverened by fashion and fleeting lust for market fads.
Well, I guess that You just did answer Your own question - why there is no-one on this mailing list also using turbo-cnc. How do You think, how many people are using tape drives these days? I do not remember that I have ever seen them in real life not to mention having access to hardware that uses them. You mention that replacing the failed hardware is a problem. Is there any particular reason not to fix the cause of the problem - the age of the hardware - and switch over to something new that can last for next 5-10 years (or even more, Ubuntu + LinuxCNC liveCD can be used to reinstall system pretty much unlimited number of times (minus the normal wear of disk by eventual scratches on its surface; practice shows that LinuxCNC machine can run without problems for years without reinstalls), rather than trying to fight the consequences and try to fix one piece of hardware knowing that next one will fail soon or update the stone-age technology of tape drive with something newer, - still ancient DOS-based control system. > > who knows, maybe cartesian coordinates will eventually go out of style. They were introduced by Decartes long before Christ came up on the stage, so I guess that they are here to stay some more time to be used as a means to describe a location of one point in a space related to all the other points in the space. Polar coordinate system is more convenient only if special conditions apply. I do not know of any other alternative... Viesturs ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
