Use your personal computer for direct numerical control. (Emphasis: Systems and Software)

From: Modern Machine Shop | Date: November 1, 1991| Author: Fritz, Dan | Copyright information

If you have CNC (computer numerical control) machine tools in your shop and own a personal computer, you've probably thought about linking the two to create a kind of direct numerical control (DNC) system. Most personal computers and most CNC units have standard communications ports, so the possibility obviously seems tempting and feasible.

Linking the personal computer with CNC allows NC programs to be sent and received as disk files. For one thing, this arrangement ...

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