OSP2200 - that really is old school. Same with pre FANUC - 5 controls - single axis LED number position readouts.
I remember making paper tapes on a teletype because I hated standing in front of a Bandit console typing in; Xxx.xxxx (enter) Yxx.xxxx (enter) Ixx.xxxx (enter) Jxx.xxxx (enter) Fxx.x (Store) - just to get a single line of code into the machine. These early machine controls are easier for us to reverse engineer because of the simplicity. But I have to wonder if that was still so early on in the transition to NC / CNC that Okuma was buying much of the control electronics - off the shelf vrs designing there own proprietary systems. Okuma and Mori Seiki were both manual machine tool builders first, but as costs grew in Japan, Okuma dropped manufacture of manual machines in favor of CNC only to reach the profit per sqr meter goals required by real estate costs in Japan. Mori licensed some of its manual machines to Hwacheon in Korea, and those were imported and sold under the Mori name for a time. They are still produced in limited numbers in Korea but are now sold as Hwacheon (some were sold in the US under the WEBB label) I have used several of these and would snatch one up if I could afford it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
