In the cellar my dad has 2 CNC lathes.

Lathe 1 - A Myford ML10, controlled by a BBC Computer. Basically the Connect 121 power source interperates signals from the BBC and controls the stepper motors. Trouble is, we have no software This would be a great wee system but with no discs its totally useless. Can anyone help?





Lathe 2 - An Emco Compact 5 CNC. Again, no software. We have the cable to run from the lathe to a serial port but thats it :-( Again, can anyone help?

I've go a cow-orker who can probably point you in the right direction. I'll be back in the office Wednesday and see if I can get anything meaningful out of him. His father runs a machine shop.

-Zeke

EMCO Web Site

Both of the computers say "Computer Numerical Control" on them. Probably the software is in rom and boots into a CNC interpreter mode. All you need to do is upload the g-code to the processor and hit 'run', or whatever, and it'll do it's thing.

www.bobcad.com has stuff to download that'll create the cnc code.