[Coco] Regarding disk drives

[N8WQ]

Gene,
Sorry I mixed you guys up and congrats on your dumpster dive.
That is a nice web site you have.

Alan Jones

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N8WQ - Canal Winchester, Ohio
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http://n8wq.blogspot.com



Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday 03 January 2009, N8WQ wrote:
>   
>> Hi Gene,
>> I was looking at your milling setup a couple of weeks ago on your web site.
>> I like how you put the CoCo to work!
>>
>> Alan Jones
>>     
>
> You must have been looking at George's site.  Mine is at 
> <http://gene.homelinux.net:85/gene>
> I run my little mill with a linux box (dumpster dive special, with used cpu & 
> memory) running emc-2.2.8.  The complete kit of that software is available in 
> the ubuntu repo's.  It was once a Harbor Freight micro-mill but has been 
> heavily reworked by me.  Its most recent duty last week was making a new air 
> output manifold for my small air compressor from a 1x2x4" block of alu, the 
> pot metal original had cracked and the leak couldn't be stopped.  Works 
> great.  I can leave a framing nailer plugged in overnight and it might run 
> once in the night now.  Was every 2 minutes.  Bad leak.
>
>