A poster told me on cnczone, that he converted an identical above named mill, to EMC2, in just 12 hours of work. I would figure that it would take me, say, 40 hours. That is approximately a month of part time efforts, waiting for parts etc.
If so, I think that Karl is right, I should not invest too much time and money on getting the old control to work. If a EGA to VGA converter does not work, just forget it.
According to what I learned, I can reuse the servo motors, scales, scale signal converters, transformer and and servo drives and sell off most everything else. Then I will end up with a modern system that could run either EMC2 or Mach3.
If I configure a PC for this, I will probably leave half of the disk available so that I can make it dual boot. This way, I could install Mach3 if I decided to sell this mill. But as a Linux user, I would rather make EMC2 work for me.
What am I missing in the above picture?
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