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I have lots of information and website links that should be helpful to you,,, pm me or write me at cwalker1060 at gmail and i'll send it to you ..my machine was running max32 which is a different...

Moving forward with my conversion I have decided to go the linuxcnc/mesa card route. This decision is based largely in part to the linuxcnc forum and the very knowledgeable, friendly and helpful...

samco,
I'm still leaning heavily towards linuxcnc and mesa. I think it's a good fit for what I want to accomplish, that coupled with the very helpful people in the linuxcnc forum and the always high...

This thread is getting interesting. I have a full time (day ) job to pay the bills and as of now this is mostly hobby so my build will probably take a good while. I will keep a record and photos and...

skullworks,
Yeah I had already located the dongle after you mentioned it was in the paraport line , mine is just like yours.
Also , started another thread relating to hurco conversion if you want...

I have all the wiring schemes for my machine as well.. I think i'm more worried about getting everything programmed right , Spindle orient, tool release, positioning for z and carousel , air blast...

A quote from another forum "Ah, this old chestnut. You could put the drive in an old pc with the bios parameters set to 1024=cyl 16=heads 0=lzone 0=wpcom 50=sectors "
Bloke,
I followed those...

Hey Mike,
I haven't forgotten about the need to get into the BIOS,,, I have made my keyboard cable following the pinouts from the hurco drawings , but no success in getting into bios
I've tried...

I have all 3 max32 version 1.54 floppies ,, and a 4th disk , labeled machine configuration that contains the screw mapping files which was last updated in 95 i believe it was,, even have a sheet in...

Thomas,
First,, thanks for the link to your build,,, sorry i don't know the language,, German??
Which mesa boards did you choose for your conversion? the 5i20 seems to be very popular among...

yeah mine's still in a coma too. I got the keyboard connected to the motherboard ,, nothing I do seems to bring up a bios.. a DOS disk won't boot in it.. I tried running the hurco floppies again...

Have you done one with a toolchanger yet? If so will we need any additional hardware to control the toolchanger ?
Will you use the kmotioncnc for your front end or mach3/4?
I've breifly looked at...

Well that is what I'm asking... I am hopeful that I can re use the yaskawa servo drives at least for the time being. If linuxcnc,, I am considering the 5i25/7i77 boards for analog output,, if kflop...

I have purchased an old hurco bmc 30 VMC 1991 year model running on max32dsp . The controller is dead right now (possibly only the hard drive) and no telling what it would cost to get it back up....

Yeah I realize I never got into the bios on it. I was told by someone else that the bios was not accessible on this particular machine.That didn't sound logical to me but I didn't know any better so...

I was going through my books that I got with the machine ,( I have all the wiring schemes for it),, and the cable that runs from the motherboard connection CPU J6 to the Front panel control board...

okay on that tb53 terminal ,, 1 and 2 go to the keyswitch and the other 6 go to the card behind it labeled crt controller pcb2
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Yeah it's really clint walker ,, was called cheyenne most of my childhood,, I think it was my mom that had it for the "big guy" ,,
I've got a step by step guide to reloading the hard drive and an...

Hey Mike
Usually not too grumpy but I must admit this thing has pushed my patience.. Pretty handy on the machines you've shared photos of actually have the keyboard connections labeled with KB and...

I had found that same diagram on the hurco website some time ago,, I don't have the tb9 connection on the front console board , but i do have the J6 connector on the motherboard,, making up the cable...

my machine is running max32dsp ,yours is ultimax 3,, as you can see the boards in the console differ greatly from yours,, looking at the photo you posted with the keyboard connected the 4 terminals...

here is what the inside of my console looks like..
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Hey Mike,
I haven't had a chance to do anything with it yet, my paying job keeps getting in the way..
I'm going to take a look at it today and see if my connection inside the console looks like...

when i say removed the hurco controls , i mean as it's all sitting in the shop floor right now , again I didn't cut any wires and i could easily put it back in .. i had already isolated the power...

I must confess that I have now removed all of the hurco control system .. I have been messing with it off and on for almost 6 months now and have tried everything I knew to do and everything anyone...

also , i have read about the darlington battery and other cmos batteries on the main board and I have not seen anything that looks like a battery to me and I am familiar with what the normal...

I have dos boot disks but I never tried one in the machine,,
I have seen nowhere on the outside or the inside of the console to connect a keyboard
enclosing photos of the back plane, personality...

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bootable floppy? when I put the hurco floppy in it brings up the first screen saying loading exec ,, when it calls for the second floppy it gives an error , i don't remember what now.
I have seen no...

Did you get the hurco going? I'm in a similar situation and drowning too. I have a 1990 bmc that was upgraded to max32 . I have the 3 max 32 ver.1.54 disks and one configuration disk in my folder. ....