Hey all,

So my father has bought this old machine and I'm trying to get it working, I have boot disks for it so it is functioning.

My problem is putting Gcode onto floppy drives.

I have a usb floppy drive, I also have a internal floppy drive running XP.
I also have some spare boot disks and other floppy disks, These are two hole HD disks.

So there is this page: http://www.cnczone.com/forums/commer...py-format.html
Which isn't helpful and the guy is asking for $400!

TL,DR: CNI and floppy disks are bad.

Has anyone converted a machine like this to a newer control panel? maybe one for a bargain price from China?

The VFD and servo drives should be standard and it'll allow use for GCODE and have other benefits.

What do you guys think?