Boxford certainly used to only deal with educational establishments, but they do appear to of softened that stance lately.

I'd guess it's probably more of a problem with the hardware not being capable, rather than just the EEPROM version not being new enough, otherwise you could just swap the EEPROM.


Best option would be to just gut the existing controller, fit some new stepper drivers, along with a new controller. There are plenty options for controllers, but recommendations would depend on the specification of the machine, as that's where the real complications come in (i.e. tool changers).