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How's your DOS ?
John Stevenson:
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--- Quote from: John Stevenson on October 08, 2015, 06:07:52 PM ---Still got a CNC milling machine on DOS 6.2
Works great and if I upgraded to say Mach 3 i would loose a few things like a one line G Code for thread milling.
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Is that running Ah-Ha John?
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Yes, it must have been awesome in it's day. Had this machine probably 15 ? years and it dates back to 1988 I think but since retrofitting it 15 years ago and AHHA was the only affordable controller out there it's never errored out once from software.
Works on an ISA slot in the computer [ got a spare waiting in case ], Pity it couldn't be ported to a PCI card.
DavidA:
Isn't a deep knowledge of CP/M a sign of a misspent youth ? Or is that being good at pool ?
The Amstrad PCW8256 runs CP/M.
Dave.
lordedmond:
Dave
Yes pip across the file
Stuart
DavidA:
And we haven't yet mentioned IBM's response to DOS; OS2/Warp.
If I remember correctly this had the advantage of bypassing the early DOS 640 K memory limit.
I still have, behind me on a shelf, a boxed OS2 set with it's manuals. Maybe I will install it on an old IBM PC and get that authentic retro experience.
Dave. :D
Lew_Merrick_PE:
--- Quote from: jcs0001 on October 08, 2015, 06:44:10 PM ---I also worked with a sliderule but haven't yet used an abacus - I have used my fingers and toes on occassion - does that count as old?
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When I was in 2nd Grade, my eldest sister gave me an abacus/sliderule where the sliderule was the outside face of a cylinder and the abacus was the (top) flat surface. It was small enough that I could hide it under my desk and answer arithmetic questions before anybody else -- until I got caught in 8th grade and people realized I had never learned to add, subtract, multiply or divide conventionally. I spent about two months of 1-2 hours/day of being drilled on my arithmetic as a result.
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