On Tuesday 16 June 2015 17:58:05 George Ramsower wrote: > On 6/16/2015 11:12 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday 16 June 2015 03:39:48 Erik Christiansen wrote: > > > > And its the main reason I host my own meager efforts right here on > > this machine. I have been a fan of the TRS-80 Color Computer since > > the 80's, and an os9/nitros9 author since the late 80's. Its been > > one hell of a teacher as os9/nitros9 is a pretty full blown unix > > workalike that can run on any 6x09 based machine with 64k of ram, > > fully > > multiuser/multitasking (until it runs out of memory for the user, > > but the way os9 level 2 maps memory, I have a whopping 2 megabytes > > in mine.) 100% community supported today, and one fellow is running > > a web server from his machine. Written in basic09. > > > > So I effectively have one leg back in Jurrasic times computerwise. > > :) > > > > There's a lurker here I think, who is running his small home made > > milling machine with a "coco". He built all the motor drivers & > > interfacing hardware for it. I'll let him speak up when he is > > ready. > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > Thanks for the introduction, Gene. I'm that lurker!
Welcome George. We don't bite very often here. > George Ramsower, just north of San Antonio. > I do like my "Micro Mill" as they are called but I just call it a > "Desktop Mill". Lately, I've been creating the rest of an alphabet. I > already have 0-9 numbers and nine alpha characters written. > As I get better, I intend to get back onto this particular software > project. > The objective here is to be able to make mail box tags and see if > anyone will buy them. If there aren't any sales, it's not a big deal > as then I can make one for MY mail box. I engraved a brass plaque, for beside the doorbell, and for the mailbox. I had this brass kickplate laying around getting scuffed & nothing better to do for a few hours. ;-) > That's all I really wanted to > do anyway! I'll end up with labels and tags on several things around > here. Then I can get back to building parts for my next steam engine. > > George R while I have your attention, the hobby shops sell brass tubeing that each size telescopes in the next size or or down. For a piece thats 3/8" OD, what is the bore size? I need to shim a couple of lovejoys that are 3/8" bore, down to 8mm to fit some big honky nema 23's. Do-able? > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >-------- _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
