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Marty talks about a cable that plugs into the DYN4 drive setup for the Acorn in the video.
I searched there sight but did not find it. Does someone have the part# for this cable?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFCWAxQkxok&t=4s

I bought a gang tool lathe with a Siemens 808D control and Siemens V60 drives and motors. It had a optional 4 position auto indexing tool post that I did not get with the machine. I can't get the 808 to move the axis because the tool post is not plunged in. I am working with a man that has sent me s...

I will.

https://youtu.be/W5lNV0kYLA4 https://youtu.be/fQ8541KGWOI That’s about 500ipm! I put a bathroom scale under the Z and let it down on the scale. The scale read 352lbs. This give me some idea of how much counterweight I was going to need. It took 450lbs of counterweight to balance the Z. I turned the ...

I have never owned a touch screen PC. Centroid recommends using a touch screen with there Acorn. How many guys are just sticking with the old school mouse? I really want to use a all-in-one. The all-in-one PCs that I have been finding with good processors and good SSHD with lots of space and ram are...

Why in the NUC recommended over the other options?

Thanks for the fast reply. I read the requirements.
The part that has me confused is it said “single core”.
Down in the parts list to build your own PC a dual core cpu
link is given. I watched Marty’s pc build video and he used a dual core.

Found a good deal on a nice all in one touch screen PC.
It is 64 bit. I don’t remember reading anything about 32 or 64 bit
in the PC rquirments.