Newby- rebuild prolight mill and lathe

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22 Apr 2018 09:49 #109423 by Agoodevans58
Just wanted to introduce myself to the community. I have a prolight 1000 mill and a 3000 turning Center. Currently run with old floppy drive PC’s and looking for a rebuild. Would like to run stand alone? Still getting ideas.
Thanks in advance. :)

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22 Apr 2018 16:48 #109435 by tommylight
I personally use mesa for everything that does not fit on a table, parallel port for what does fit there.

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23 Apr 2018 06:36 #109481 by Agoodevans58
Thanks TommyLight, both my machines are desktop but parallel ports are now obsolete. I have an old PC with P.Port but no USB or network card, so I can’t transfer files. Can you control a cnc machine via an Ethernet connection?

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23 Apr 2018 18:58 #109501 by tommylight
You can also transfer files through parallel port, used that a lot back in the days of pentium 1, i think the software used was named FX...... never mind, just memories.
There are Mesa ethernet boards also, i use 7i92m on a 3.5 ton machine.

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01 May 2018 21:45 #109953 by andypugh

Thanks TommyLight, both my machines are desktop but parallel ports are now obsolete.


Don't take this as a recommendation to use the parallel port (it is limited, but cheap) but plenty of motherboards still have a parallel port either on the back panel:

www.mini-itx.com/store/category?type=mot...&sortby=price&page=1

or on an internal header.

www.mini-itx.com/store/category?type=mot...&sortby=price&page=1

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