On 01/11/2017 11:11 PM, Bob Rosenbloom wrote:
On 1/11/2017 8:45 PM, Jon Elson wrote:
I also have an Allen-Bradley 7320, a CNC machine tool
control. The heart of it is a 7300 "industrial
processor" 16-bit minicomputer. I used it for a year or
so to run a retrofitted Bridgeport milling machine, but
got tired of it breaking down, which it did fairly
often. Once I got EMC from NIST running, the A-B was
turned off for good.
http://pico-systems.com/images/S_AB7320D.jpg
Jon
I have one of the AB processor units from a 7320 system.
The 3264 Industrial Processor. I have spare boards and
front panels also.
Was there ever any general purpose software available for
it? BASIC, FORTRAN, assembler/editor/linker stuff? It
would be fun to
get it running if there was something fun it could be used
for.
Bob
I quite doubt it. I suspect it was also used in places
where today you'd use a PLC, controlling various industrial
processes. It has a board that interfaces to I/O racks that
can take 8 I/O modules, and you can have several of these
racks per interface. I have digital inputs and outputs,
encoder counters and D/A converters, but I think there were
a bunch of different types of modules available.
I would GUESS they did software development on some general
purpose computer, but really have no idea. Their mini
certainly COULD have had assemblers, linkers and such for
in-house use. Maybe the industrial control guys used
software like that to set up the processes.
Jon
