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Can confirm... we had a GE CNC machine made in 1970 running our 50 HP Lathe in the gear shop I worked at. It used mylar tape, as PUNCH tape, not magnetic. If yo
by mikewarot 4y ago
Can confirm... we had a GE CNC machine made in 1970 running our 50 HP Lathe in the gear shop I worked at. It used mylar tape, as PUNCH tape, not magnetic. If you have something working in a small job shop, you risk the business if you "upgrade" it, and scrap a batch of $10,000 parts because the new system isn't programmed exactly right.
Someone will need to keep the old stuff alive. It might be 1980s-2000 vintage logic controllers in emulation by 2050, though.