Surprising that just for the fun of doing it, someone hasn't built a punched
tape reader for a 3D printer. Would be much less complicated that the old
machines, just encode G-code to hole patterns and have a reader for the tape
send the code to an Arduino with a RAMPS board.
From: Dave Cole <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2016 11:19 AM
Subject: Re: [Emc-users] What does "CNC" really mean?
I'm probably dating myself, but back in 1976 I ran an NC mill for a
while at a shop in Detroit. I was pretty young back then.
It was definitely not a CNC. You loaded it with paper tapes and hoped
that the guy punching the tape in the front office did his job.
The guy in the front office read the paper prints and typed the codes
into the paper tape punch machine line by line.
He was pretty good. The tapes they were using back then were
definitely paper and they were fairly easy to tear. No mylar in those
tapes.
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