On 9/5/22 00:47, Chris Albertson wrote:
So he has one of these?
https://ez-router.com/10-cnc-plasma-cutter/27-5-x-10-ez-plasma.html
Why not ask the manufacturer about the product?
They have, but this being labor day weekend, there's nobody home to
answer questions,
just an answering service girl that got stuck working the holiday.
But it doesn't quite fit the description of a fly by night operation.
With that machine having
an asking in the neighborhood of $12k, they will probably not have any
support for a
machine that old. What they might want is to sell him an updated control
package that
does more, faster than the 2014 hdwe it has. Frank looked at it, no non
volatile storage except
a cd reader. And in 2022, the chances of a new cdrom being readable in
that old a drive are
somewhere between point double ought zip and zero.
I bought into the idea of using crdom, then dvd's for backups, and
bought a couple 100 packs
of disks then discovered they weren't big enough to be practical. Today
I have 3 optical drives,
and that spindle of cdroms cannot be identified and used by any drive.
The only reliable
spindle I have left for making install dvd's is some high priced
re-recordables. The ID tracks
of all the rest have faded away into the sunset of old age. It would not
surprise me if an 8 yo
disk was not readable even if the drive was replaced.
We'll see what develops once folks get back from wherever they went for
the long holiday.
Take care and stay well Chris.
Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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