Well, yes, coon hats are very comfortable - unless you're a coon! Okuma decided from the good ol' tape days to express their memory in terms of meters as if they were paper tape. So much for moving forward... Anyway, your control should have the FREE key - it's just buried in the edit mode. Go to your edit mode and hit the extend key and your FREE key will show up. Push it and then type the ;C and press write. You should see your memory displayed.
If I remember right, there are 12 characters per inch, so doing the math, 30 meters should give you about 14K of runnable program space and about 30K of storage for programs. No it's not in MB of storage like anything newer. Bubble was awesome for it's day, but expensive. You would have to spend about $15K just to get about 1.5 MB of storage from Okuma - yikes!
Fortunately, CNC code is extremely efficient, so the small memory works for most shops - if you use Okuma's canned cycles it even better. Remember every character counts - spaces, line numbers, leading and trailing zero's, unneeded decimal points ,so get rid of them all if you are in a crunch - none are needed by the control.
May your bubble memory never burst!  |