The history of CNC machine 1960

[mowens]

The first video game I played loaded onto a Commodore 64 from a cassette tape.

[CADCAM396]

I never ever thought about that. So running the machine was literally putting full trust in the programmer?

No looking at canned cycles, no double checking feeds / speeds, no distance to go. Man that must've been a whole different world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_tape

NOPE back then the machinist was fully responsible for anything that went on at the machine. hum dat kinda makes sense.
we were very creative on dry runs.
and no canned cycles, all G1,G0. No decimal either had to have all digits for place holder if I remember correctly. 1 inch was 1000.

[gcode]

I know some of the guys' first programming language was pencil cam;

that's me
I bought a $400 programmable HP calculator to help crunch numbers
I had little programs to do bolt circles and the start and endpoints of arcs
doing angled cuts
That was back in the days when $400 was serious money

[mkd]

I refuse to use any cnc still saddled with a hard drive. Solid state or I don't touche it.

[mkd]

Says Thee State of Thee Ark Harse owner....

Touche