On Monday 14 October 2019 08:26:30 Todd Zuercher wrote: > It isn't the reliability of Linuxcnc that is in question we already > have several machines running it. It is the down time for the > conversion. The old system is still working, but it's PC is showing > signs of its age, (bad CMOS battery, flaky booting, pending HD > failure...)
All of which should be prima-facie evidence of a half dead cmos battery. Downtime of 45 minutes max, and 5 bucks to replace it. Next excuse... > Buying a new Wincnc PC with the current Wincnc version and > Windows 10, appeals to them (and our IT guy who isn't a Linux guy). Your IT guy? Should be you just from the content of the posts you made to this list... > And should just be plug and play, not to mention supported by the OEM > who is setting up and sending us the new PC. At what cost and downtime while retraining the operators to deal with a new os. Didn't your folks ever hear of TANSTAAFL? They are about to. > Todd Zuercher > P. Graham Dunn Inc. > 630 Henry Street > Dalton, Ohio 44618 > Phone: (330)828-2105ext. 2031 > > -----Original Message----- > From: andrew beck <andrewbeck0...@gmail.com> > Sent: Saturday, October 12, 2019 12:12 AM > To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) > <emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Mesa Card > Suggestions > > That's a pretty good record! > > On Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 3:24 PM Jon Elson <el...@pico-systems.com> wrote: > > On 10/11/2019 02:56 PM, Todd Zuercher wrote: > > > Thanks Jon, > > > > > > >From the sound of if, the powers that be are not going to let me > > > > convert this machine to Linuxcnc. They want to buy a new Wincnc PC. > > (The machine operators and myself would rather switch it over.) Oh > > well. > > > > > > Well, you can tell them that I've been using EMC/EMC2/LinuxCNC since > > 1998, and it has not crashed EVER in that whole time. If that > > doesn't convince them, then I guess that is what will happen. > > > > Jon > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Emc-users mailing list > > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > > _______________________________________________ > 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) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis 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
