Hi I have a South Bend CNC Lathe 1218 Magnaturn, about 1991 vintage and I'm having trouble loading new programs into the machine on a 3 1/2" floppy.
It worked great for two years now all of a sudden it will not take new programs.
I think the old computer has a funny way of formatting, with a SYS DIR file on the disk. I think mine got contaminated. The machine controll will load programs that are already in the memory so the machine is OK, It must be a bad disk.
Is anyone familiar with the way these old machines work and can anyone send me a new SYS DIR file for my disk. I didn't get any software with the machine.
The service guy at South Bend lathe in Indiana has been out for three weeks.
Thanks