Got a backup in the desk drawer yet? - getting used to all of the neat
controls.

Martin

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On 8/15/2010 12:49 AM, F. George McDuffee wrote:
On Sat, 14 Aug 2010 23:45:38 -0500, Ignoramus30661
wrote:

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This is really, really tremendous and amazing what I get for $2 on a
nice Saturday of August. Just $2 and three hours of typing stuff and I
have a nice milling control pad. These devices cost about $10
everywhere else, which is negligible for the value that they bring.

ALL HAIL EMC2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

i
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You seem to be making good progress. Nice find on the
trackball.

Some quick questions for both you and the group -- have you
used the blackplot/simulator function in EMC2 yet? Will this
run "stand alone, i.e. no machine/controller card/hardware
attached? By any chance have you tried the
http://www.cncsimulator.com/ simulator? Any feeling how
these compare? When I retired I lost my access to a cnc
machine, but still get the urge to program from time to
time, and simulators are the next best thing. I currently
use cncsimulator and for a free program this works well.


-- Unka George (George McDuffee)
..............................
The past is a foreign country;
they do things differently there.
L. P. Hartley (1895-1972), British author.
The Go-Between, Prologue (1953).