True, but at some point that becomes uneconomical. I know a guy who had a Mazak lathe with ancient controls and he dumped over $10K in boards and labor into it to get it running again and it was not a large lathe.
Dave On 3/24/2016 6:50 AM, Todd Zuercher wrote: > I can't imagine anyone "wants to" but it is done. Fanuc still supports and > maintains the controls for one of our old (an ancient 11M) CNCs built in 1984 > (and much older stuff too). And this is one of the reasons they get the big > bucks for their stuff and why they're so popular. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dave Cole" <linuxcncro...@gmail.com> > To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2016 9:45:31 PM > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Linuxcnc on arm > > Who wants to use and maintain (if it is possible) an original CNC control > made prior to 2000 ?? > > Dave > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Transform Data into Opportunity. > Accelerate data analysis in your applications with > Intel Data Analytics Acceleration Library. > Click to learn more. > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=278785351&iu=/4140 > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transform Data into Opportunity. Accelerate data analysis in your applications with Intel Data Analytics Acceleration Library. Click to learn more. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=278785351&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
