Quote Originally Posted by Jay View Post
Got an old emco compact 5 Cnc gathering dust with loads of stuff and tapes with it to if their still being used by people or is it a case of scrapping because people are not interested in them anymore? ( been out the game a while so no idea what's the in thing these days you see...lol)
The EMCO stuff is still cutting chips, most now use MACH3 or LinuxCNC, some use parallel port & break out board, others USB or Ethernet and an external motion controller. Some use the old steppers, some replace them but the base hardware is good and is still worth having,

- Nick