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The Sequel - Oh Blimey I bought a CNC Lathe (Beaver TC 20)
PekkaNF:
Nowadays I am next to useless on S5/S7 et.al. I should send a colleque. She is younger, smarter and she has S5 on laptop, but she has two teens, another is a rally driver and another is pricess....should be a lot of fun.
Pekka
awemawson:
At least you have done it in the past, I've never even seen it running :bugeye:
Looking on eBay you are right there are several on offer, but I'm not sure what I'm looking at as not a German speaker. The extra programmer unit is also available. I don't mind buying one so long as I don't choose the wrong thing in my ignorance. Any tips appreciated.
Were they all CP/M 86 based. I cut my teeth on CP/M with home brew Z80 / S100 systems and 8" floppy drives :lol:
An alternative is somehow to get STEP5 on a laptop. I revived a Toughbook running XP only yesterday to see if it's battery was any good, as it has a proper serial port.
But all my attempts so far to source a working and enabled STEP5 have come to nothing, all very frustrating.
PekkaNF:
I used program and start machines, mostly with S5/S7 and mostly in ladder. But that was long time ago and there was always someone to call, beacuse there were leasto of 20 of us at any given time. Therefore my knowledge is very limited and spesific. But I could ask some pointers from the new blood.
You are right, the old ones were CP/M, but OS was used mainly to copy discs, BU-files and very basic stuff. Everything to do with Siemes was on that all encopasing programing program. Maybe here is one obsolote, but operational unit floating somewhere. Have to ask, hopefully my mailbox is not litterd with URGENT-messages on Monday - I might even remember it until lunch:)
Pekka
awemawson:
Pekka that would be very kind. :thumbup:
Presumably with the right software PG 675 / 685 / 720 or 740 would work ?
David Jupp:
Where I used to work we had S5 PLCs controlling some plastic compounding equipment.
Our process control guy had a luggable Siemens PC (yes I mean an IBM PS2 compatible) to talk to the PLC- I don't remember clearly, but i suspect it was DOS based (1990s). 3.5" floppy drive.
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