Series II R2E4 Programming

[AppEng]

Hello, Is anyone familiar with programming at the control or have any .pdf manuals they could share? Is it a pain in the a**? What is required to feed programs thru a computer/rs232?

[kdhBOSS5VRAM]

We used to have one of these except a Series 1. We did most of the programming on EZ-Cam which was Bridgeports Cad-Cam system and then used EZ-Utilities to transfer programs which worked excellent. I think that one still had the round 9 pin connector which got connected to a 25pin serial adapter into the computer. It doesn't have conversational programming, just basic G-code but I don't think it was hard to program easy things on the machine as at least that one has a full screen to see what you are doing unlike the older ones like I have (BOSS 5). We might have a programming-operators manual around I could look at and give you some info if you need it.

Kevin

[AppEng]

I appreciate it! I'm excited to see if I can make this thing useful.

[machintek]

Check machinemanuals.net and Ebay for manuals as well.
I had a BOSS9 and found it to be a very powerful control. Most programs I wrote longhand on a TRS80 model 100. Using loops and macros it was easy to program 5 small parts per vise and use 2 vises. This saved a lot on space in the memory too.
Later I purchased the MAC version of EZCAM and used that but still edited the programs.
Editing at the machine will be laborious. You will need a PC and use it as a dumb terminal to edit. Very powerful editor that way.

George