Hello all!
I've got a Haas VF-2 (1994) and a pile of Bridgeport EZ-Path lathes in my shop and I'd like to start offloading programs to our server. Most of the lathes have a working floppy drive, but I'd rather not go around to each one dumping these hundreds of programs manually. The Haas has no such drive, so I know a cabled option is necessary there.
All the information I find on the cable for the Haas DNC is using a 9-pin serial on the PC side, which is fine because I have a desktop near there. However, there is no desktop near the Bridgeports and I really would like to keep it that way. My laptop only has USB.
Does anyone have any experience doing DNC with either a usb-to-serial or a cable that perhaps uses a serial/usb adapter on the end of it? I'm going to be making the Haas cable later today and that goes to 9-pin serial. If anyone has any input as to the best way to make that connect to a USB at some point, it would be greatly appreciated.
Ralph