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Rebirth of a Denford MIRAC CNC Lathe

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tom osselton:
That was way too easy! But you deserve a break after that last one you did well done!

awemawson:

--- Quote from: philf on February 08, 2018, 09:43:14 AM ---Andrew,

Looking good  :thumbup: although the tool changer sounds as though it needs some grease. (Unless they always sound like that.)

I hope you're going to backup the hard drive before you do anything else!

Phil.

--- End quote ---

Phil, Just finished a full disk back up. Thirteen 1.44  floppies under MSBACKUP under DOS 6.22 - no easy other way to do it. I may try and fit a CD drive now I have a backup but it's a bit of a rigmarole loading the extra drivers as I don't think DOS 6.22 had CD support

philf:
Andrew,

I was thinking rather of lifting the drive out and cloning it. I did that for my Mach3 PC after the length of time it took me to configure the PC and Mach3 - I didn't want to start from scratch again.

I'm surprised anyone still has floppies!

Anyway, better safe than sorry.

Phil.

awemawson:
My approach was to get the data off before poking about and the PC possibly dying  :bugeye:

As I was hunting for floppies I discovered that I had a set of DOS 6.22 original install disks tucked away !

DICKEYBIRD:
Andrew, one of the fellows on another forum reported success with a floppy/USB adapter with DOS.  He was saying that it's somewhat popular with old CNC machine users to get away from the hazards of floppy usage.  I'm sure we've all lost important data using those %$^%& things!

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