Tony Duell wrote:
[ ... ]
>So has anyone ever heard of the Beeb printer port being used for
>something other than a parallel printer?
>
When I was a student we used to have BBCs driving lathes, through, I
seem to recall, the printer port.
The software used had a lathe simulator that let you check your sequence
(thus saving expensive
cutting tool costs) before performing a real run.
It is so long ago that only the letters CNC remained in the bucket -
enough, though, to find this
http://www.pilotltd.net/lathe.htm
Cheers,
Dave.
Received on Sat Sep 18 2004 - 02:50:25 BST