jcb121
22-10-2015, 07:45 PM
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/commercial-cnc-wood-routers/57790-cni-floppy-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?
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/commercial-cnc-wood-routers/57790-cni-floppy-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?