no, i was talking about commercial production machining centers, mostly fanuc based, 15-30yr old vintages. only the earlier ones have tape drives, but they all have 'tape' modes for storage periferals.
not sure about the decartes info. --- On Thu, 3/8/12, Viesturs Lācis <viesturs.la...@gmail.com> wrote: > From: Viesturs Lācis <viesturs.la...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] EMC2/Ubuntu updates - safe to install? > To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" <emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > Date: Thursday, March 8, 2012, 6:01 AM > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
