There is ZERO support for this machine from BPT or Hardinge. Give me your email address. If you do not have a firewall, I can send you a self extracting ZIP file (it will have a .exe extension). This came off the dealer section of the BPT website before it was terminated. Extract it to a floppy. I have to investigate if it is ready to be a boot disk with software or if it is bootable floppy intended (extracted to a floppy that has the DOS 6.20 boot files on it already). As a side note, the FMDC is a very difficult board to repair. EMI (Electrical Mecahnical Integrators) do sell conversions to use a BMDC instead of the FMDC. I believe it may need a new motherboard to go along with it. I wonder if they keep the EGA monitor or if a VGA will be needed. The problem is finding a EGA video card. It is just a jurassic control. Think of "dog years" to a factor of ten.
George W.
George W. |