RE: Table Saws and As/400 shake....

[Joel Fritz <JFritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Actually, I'd be interested in industrial process control on the AS/400 (or,
gasp, on other platforms.)  When I was a heat treater I had to operate
programmable furnace controllers to set up fairly complicated heating and
cooling cycles.  They had a user interface about as friendly as a cheap
digital watch.  The only good thing about them was that they could store a
reasonable number of scripts so you didn't have to program each cycle.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pat Barber [mailto:MBOCEANSIDE@postoffice.worldnet.att.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 1999 1:50 PM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: Table Saws and As/400 shake....
> 
> 
> Joel Fritz wrote:
> > 
> > Why not indeed.  All high end CAD software can produce scripts for
> > machining.  'Course AS/400 graphics capability has kind of 
> limited the
> > availability of CAD/CAM on the 400.
> 
> Yep.... I can see that one bad click on the old browser will get you
> in trouble for days....
> 
> A few(several) years ago, I saw a S/36 that ran a plywood plant,
> including
> the control of the cut of the veneer to make the plywood. The operator
> had
> to tell the S/36 how big the log was,and it controlled the 
> biggest lathe
> you have ever seen.... As I recall, they had some sort of ascii device
> controller that you could attach direct to the S/36.... It wouldn't be
> any sweat for the 400 to do it, with somthing like C or 
> Pascal to handle
> the funky control languages of various cad/cam devices....
> 
> The guys in the woodworking list are still giving me hell about
> computers
> and woodworkers, soooooo I'll just suffer in silence.....
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