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I love the top ranked comment on that site: This is a bandsaw...you're using dos with a gui...this is a bandsaw...

• mgkimsal 14y ago
  Yeah... What's odd about this is that, 20 years ago, that would have been 'state of the art'. Assuming the bandsaw hasn't changed, and the computer's still working, there's nothing inherently wrong or bad about having Win 3.1 control the bandsaw. What's bad is trying to use that machine for other purposes - I'd suppose the manufacturer wouldn't support the software if they found out anything else was being run on the machine. Look at the number of man hours wasted on everyone commenting on this question/topic! :) I'd imagine they could have got a $300 laptop to log in to the timesystem, put it next to the bandsaw computer, and have been done with it. But for some reason(?) they'd prefer to spend time dicking around trying to reuse 20 year old systems to save a few bucks. Did I miss the reason why they're trying to run both on one system?
  • aswanson 14y ago
    The main reason I garnered was that the boss didnt understand the danger/inanity in doing so.