Re: HMC150 '50' Machines Walter Grinders July '99
The linked site has photos of the machine's control cabinet interior and the error message. Hard disk system failure. So could be the card, cables or drive.
My plan is to replace the entire drive system. Thankfully, some "Vintage Computer" enthusiests developed a replacement card that gives old computers an IDE disk drive port. And other manufacturers make solid state flash drives with IDE connectors. There are even IDE to SD cards, so you pop a drive in or out as needed. Pretty cool solution.
I got a friend to setup a DOS virtual machine and run the STD50 program to see if it is the main control program. He said all it did was demand a floppy and then create the data/tool folder structure on it and exit.
So I'm trying to find out WHAT files are part of this machine's operation. Then I need to find a copy of them.
The machine shop has an older version of this machine that they think runs the same software. So, I'm going to try and get the files off of that. But not me in person, no budget for a "site service call".
I have never seen the machine or a photo of it, the only clue to its name I gleamed from the files they sent me. The subject line of this thread is what I found inside STD50.EXE.
I'm a little confused why the client (and other posts) refer to this machine as "STD 50" but inside that program file it says "HMC-150". I expect to figure it out, eventually.
Regards,
Richard Cooke, Turnkey Automation Inc., www.tnky.ca