Ray Henry wrote: >Great work, Jon. And it only hurt a little. IMO we have reached the >end of an EMC era. Your reports of that machine, STG, and RedHat 5 on >RCM were what attracted me to this project. > > > Well, I still don't know why that system started acting oddly. It doesn't really matter, 7 years must be past retirement age in "computer years". I've got another Dell box coming from eBay, and I'm going to try bringing up an ubuntu system so I can be fully up to date with you guys. I have been updating the minimill computer about every 2 weeks.
Only hurt a little? You don't know what a ball of twine that CNC control box has become. Parts of it used to be inside the cabinet with my A-B 7320 control, then refitted a couple of times for the EMC system. It looks like one big knot now, about 19" wide and a foot high! I'd like to see if I can get homing working on at least one axis this weekend. There's something funny on one encoder's index signal, so far I haven't figured out whether it is the encoder or the PPMC encoder board, but I suspect the latter. That board has been used for bench testing for 6 years! So, does that mean I'm the LAST of the Mohicans? I'll bet NOBODY else is using a 1999 version of EMC. Hell, nobody else, with the possible exception of Matt or you EVER ran the 1999 version, outside NIST. Do we have any idea how many EMC1 users are left? Most of my customers that I am still in contact with have migrated to EMC2 or certainly sounded like they planned to do it soon. Do we need to hold a wake? Maybe in June? (I think Chris and Jeff were threatening to do it for me, last year!) Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
