On 08/31/2016 12:05 PM, sam sokolik wrote: > We resurrected a MilwaukeeMatic IIIb. > > http://electronicsam.com/images/KandT/oldkandt.JPG > http://electronicsam.com/images/KandT/DSCCurrent.JPG > http://electronicsam.com/images/KandT/conversion/frntcontroller.JPG (we > used a 386 as a tape emulator) Oh, that's a GE 500 control, I think. > The original control was used well into the 2000's and finally died. We > then converted to linuxcnc (obviously ;) ) > > It was all discrete components - no IC's. It did circular and linear > interpolation (all be it - we never got it perfect - you could see the > faceting..) But worked quite well. Very limited GCODE > > http://electronicsam.com/images/KandT/conversion/cheatsheet.JPG > > I don't know how many cards it had - but it was a bunch... > http://electronicsam.com/images/KandT/conversion/card1.JPG > http://electronicsam.com/images/KandT/conversion/rearcontrller.JPG > (that was only the lower half of the control) I count 190 cards in the picture, seems like it needed a lot more for the model with circular interpolation.
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