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Rebirth of a Denford MIRAC CNC Lathe
awemawson:
The trunking got delivered this morning, so I was able to steal it's capping and make good the missing bits that have been lost over the years.
One step forwards and two back as far as the replacement PC is concerned. The "automatic add CD support CD" arrived and the end result is an un-bootable system with a CD drive appearing as R: and as a network drive :bang:
I have ways back to where I was but it's a pain. I'll probably re-partition the drive before I re-do it as it's far bigger than DOS can handle anyway.
The extra serial port card has arrived but I can't do anything with that until the PC will at least boot.
A nice man at Baruffaldi has sent me a PDF of the turret manual - 6 MB so too large to attach - in Italian of course but it's mostly drawings none of which seem to offer any means of adding lubrication :scratch:
David Jupp:
Andrew - English manual for the turret
http://www.denfordata.com/bb/download/file.php?id=2694
Not sure if you have to be logged in to get the file.
Will_D:
--- Quote from: David Jupp on February 13, 2018, 07:37:24 AM ---Not sure if you have to be logged in to get the file.
--- End quote ---
Nope. Downloaded straight away!
awemawson:
David thank you but that is the TOE turret not the RH80.
Just re-partitioned the HDD in the target DC7600 SFF PC, formatted it, loaded DOS 6.22 from original Microsoft floppies, loaded the DOS 6.2 version (*) of MSBACKUP into it's own directory and restored 13 floppies to bring the MIRAC original PC's software onto the new one.
I'll now manually update the autoexec.bat and config.sys to get the CD drive online hopefully.
(* MSBACKUP 6.22 will not recognize backups performed under DOS 6.2 :bang: )
Will_D:
All these skills and you can even make bacon!!
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