Getting started with Plasmac...?

Hi all-

I have a CNC plasma table that was formerly running Mach3 and a SmoothStepper board; some poor control box placement, with some splashing of the water/coolant into the box means the table is out of commission, as in, all the electronics are completely fried.

I'm trying to switch to LinuxCNC/PlasmaC but I don't know what the first steps are; I know have to replace all the electronics but don't know what to get, and buying parts does not a working machine make, so I've been looking and if there's a tutorial or guide to setting up a plasma machine with PlasmaC, I haven't found it.

If there's some guides/tutorials that include the hardware/controller side of things, I'd love to check them out. I'd really like to get back to cutting some metal.

An older PC with a parallel port, cheap china TB6600 drives will do just fine for a start, so all in all about 100$ to 150$.
Later you can add a Mesa THCAD for torch control for 70 or 80, and maybe later a Mesa 7i92 or 7i96 or if you wana splash a Mesa 7i76E.
Although given the current chip situation, you might try to get the Mesa stuff sooner than not finding it later.
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PlasmaC has it's own section on the front page of this forum, the QtPlasmaC is also there. Here is the PlasmaC documentation:
forum.linuxcnc.org/plasmac/37234-plasmac-documentation