Old Computer Prices

To get another 4 meg of expanded memory on a CNC machine with Fanuc or Mitsubishi controls is around $20K-$30K. Then you'll find the programs are still too big, and you have to run off of a server, and hope the processor keeps up. If you want to play in the five axis CNC world, you have to look to Germany or Switzerland and get something with a Heidenhain or Siemens control. Then you can run some really big programs, and have a processor that will keep up with the work you want to do.
 
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SG John said:
To get another 4 meg of expanded memory on a CNC machine with Fanuc or Mitsubishi controls is around $20K-$30K. Then you'll find the programs are still too big, and you have to run off of a server, and hope the processor keeps up. If you want to play in the five axis CNC world, you have to look to Germany or Switzerland and get something with a Heidenhain or Siemens control. Then you can run some really big programs, and have a processor that will keep up with the work you want to do.
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Uh.....
Sure....
CNC....
Heh...:oops:

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Jethro Rocker said:
Found a receipt from the bro jn law. I know computer stuff gets faster and cheaper almost every day.
But man!!

From 1990.
Remember this is MB not GB.


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Glad I waited till 2000 to get my first computer, an IBM for about $1200. I still own it. WIn98 too. This is my 2nd/3rd computer, a 17 inch HP Laptop ( actually my 3rd) cuz My HD crashed once, I bought a new one and rebooted, then the screen got busted on my original one when the dogs knocked it over. So,I got the exact same model to replace it a few years ago because I liked my original so much. The first was free, this one was maybe $225 off ebay. Not bad for 21 years of computing.
 
SG John said:
To get another 4 meg of expanded memory on a CNC machine with Fanuc or Mitsubishi controls is around $20K-$30K. Then you'll find the programs are still too big, and you have to run off of a server, and hope the processor keeps up. If you want to play in the five axis CNC world, you have to look to Germany or Switzerland and get something with a Heidenhain or Siemens control. Then you can run some really big programs, and have a processor that will keep up with the work you want to do.
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I got back ffrom Desert Storm and got out of the Army and started working for a company in Milwaukee called Generac. Use to build generators, the big ones with 350's and 454's in them. I remember the plant getting their 1st robot welder.....guess who got designated to run it, thank God they had someone else to program it...lol.....and then I got a divorce from that crazy @#$%& and got the hell out of Milwaukee :drive:
 
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