Re: User list: More info wanted

["Steve Carlisle" <quatsein-at-island.net>]

Ed, Have you documented your 486 install procedures? I for one would
like to know more on that subject.

Steve

----- Original Message -----
From: Ed Okerson <eokerson-at-fw.telenic.net>
To: Multiple recipients of list <emc-at-nist.gov>
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 5:51 PM
Subject: Re: User list: More info wanted


>
> The first machine I installed EMC on was a Compaq Presario 1925 laptop
> Celeron 400Mhz.  It is running Linux kernel 2.4.4-rtl, with the rtlinux
3.1
> patches.  I tweaked at it for a few days to get EMC to run.  The sole
> purpose of installing it on this machine was so I could take it to the
Robot
> Power Lunch meetings of the Dallas Personal Robotics Group (www.dprg.org)
to
> demo EMC running in simulation mode.
>
> After I got that running, I dug an old machine out and built it up to run
a
> small mill I am building from scratch.  It is an exercise to see how low I
> can go for a complete mill.  The PC has an old 486 motherboard (VLB) with
an
> Evergreen P133 upgrade chip.  It is running BDI 2.09 with no problems so
> far.  The hardest thing about this machine was finding an old VGA card
that
> would work with X Windows.  This machine is connected to a Dan Mauch
stepper
> driver board mounted in a SCSI drive case (great little power supply).
The
> X-Y table is built from the remains of two old Microtek flat bed scanners.
> I have yet to add a Z axis (I am open to suggestions on how to do this),
but
> a pen mounted over the table traces patterns on paper exactly as I would
> have expected.
>
> Ed Okerson
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Matt Shaver" <mshaver-at-erols.com>
> To: "Multiple recipients of list" <emc-at-nist.gov>
> Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 1:53 PM
> Subject: Re: User list: More info wanted
>
>
> >
> > Dave Engvall wrote:
> >
> > > In addition I would like to know how many users are running on
non-intel
> > > platforms.
> >
> > If possible I'd like to know:
> >
> > Type of computer (PC, Sun workstation, VME, PDP-8 :o), etc.):
> >
> > Operating System Name & Version (Linux2.2.18/RTL3.0, Win98,
> > SunOS5,lynxos, vxworks, irix5, etc.):
> >
> > Have you made any code changes that are not in the CVS?
> >
> > Are you using the rcslib for anything other than the EMC?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Matt Shaver
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>