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From paper tape to USB stick, how old timers ran parts
I remember feeding paper tape into a Bridgeport retrofit back in 1998 at a shop in Akron, every edit meant re-punching the whole roll. Now I just drag a file onto a flash drive and hit cycle start, it took me a year to trust that over the old way. Anyone else still keep a spare tape punch around just in case the newer controls act up?
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victor_perry9015d ago
Had a similar trust issue with the first Mazak I ran that took a floppy disk, must have been 2001. I kept a shoebox of disks labeled by job number under the bench for two years like some kind of security blanket. The day the drive ate one mid cycle I went back to paper tape for a week out of spite.
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