JJKPGZ
03-04-2007, 09:18 PM
Hi I have a South Bend CNC Lathe 1218 Magnaturn, about 1991 vintage and I'm having trouble loading new programs into the machine on a 3 1/2" floppy.
It worked great for two years now all of a sudden it will not take new programs.
I think the old computer has a funny way of formatting, with a SYS DIR file on the disk. I think mine got contaminated. The machine controll will load programs that are already in the memory so the machine is OK, It must be a bad disk.
Is anyone familiar with the way these old machines work and can anyone send me a new SYS DIR file for my disk. I didn't get any software with the machine.
The service guy at South Bend lathe in Indiana has been out for three weeks.
Thanks
It worked great for two years now all of a sudden it will not take new programs.
I think the old computer has a funny way of formatting, with a SYS DIR file on the disk. I think mine got contaminated. The machine controll will load programs that are already in the memory so the machine is OK, It must be a bad disk.
Is anyone familiar with the way these old machines work and can anyone send me a new SYS DIR file for my disk. I didn't get any software with the machine.
The service guy at South Bend lathe in Indiana has been out for three weeks.
Thanks