n8243274@unicorn.WWU.EDU (steven l. odegard) (09/08/90)
I prefer working with MS-DOS formatted 3 1/2 inch disketts, but the shop environment is entirely too dusty for the media to perform satisfactorily. I propose sealing a disk drive with a disk in airtight steel casing. May I ask experienced technologists what method is most employed for carrying programs to CNC machines. Yes, I am familiar with paper tape, but who uses paper anymore? -- --SLO 8243274@wwu.edu uw-beaver!wwu.edu!8243274 n8243274@unicorn.wwu.edu
nagle@well.sf.ca.us (John Nagle) (09/09/90)
Some of the Japanese machine tool manufacturers are using "smart
cards" for that purpose, and readers are provided on some newer machine
tools.
Or you can have a comm link to the machine tool controller, and keep
the removable media off the shop floor entirely. This can even be retrofitted
to some controllers with paper tape readers.
JNhollombe@ttidca.TTI.COM (The Polymath) (09/13/90)
In article <1500@unicorn.WWU.EDU> n8243274@unicorn.WWU.EDU (steven l. odegard) writes: }I prefer working with MS-DOS formatted 3 1/2 inch disketts, but the }shop environment is entirely too dusty for the media ... }... what method is most }employed for carrying programs to CNC machines. ... The system I'm using uses a 40 foot cable between the robot and it's controller. The controller can interface with a PC (RS-232) allowing up to 50 more feet. Thus the disk drive doesn't have to be in the shop environment. -- The Polymath (aka: Jerry Hollombe, M.A., CDP, aka: hollombe@ttidca.tti.com) Head Robot Wrangler at Citicorp(+)TTI Illegitimis non 3100 Ocean Park Blvd. (213) 450-9111, x2483 Carborundum Santa Monica, CA 90405 {csun | philabs | psivax}!ttidca!hollombe