Originally Posted by DieGuy This is a fantasic setup! Where did you get those motors and controllers? |
A local junkyard, believe it or not! Actually, it is a recycling business that sometimes deals in high tech junk. They are smart enough to know what controllers and motors are worth, but realistic enough to sell them for ebay prices.
There are a lot of high tech businesses around here (Portland) so when they disgard their previously expensive equipment, it often ends up at scrap prices.
Originally Posted by DieGuy TurboCNC needs to have pure DOS to run in as it needs to have direct access to the parallel port. No stinking Winders in between.
you can get one here.  |
I've been wanting to get TurboCNC running in DOS-only mode. Thanks for the great link; I'll make a DOS boot disk and try it again. Hopefully TurboCNC will cooperate (instead of rebooting my PC when run!).