On 5/25/2006 at 9:14 AM Joe R. wrote: We've found that the Mitsubishi USA folks to be very helpful as well, but when we start talking about internal documentation about old machine tool controllers, there seems to be a bit of a vacuum. While OEM and customer documentation is fairly easy to come by (in Japanese), design documentation is another matter. That's the problem with putting computers on machine tools--the investment in the iron may be well into the mid- to high-6 figures and the mechanical parts be easily maintainable, but the electronics details seem to suffer Well, worst-case, we'll disassemble some code and see what turns up. Cheers, Chuck