Hello everybody! Jaywest wrote: place. thing Haven't even looked at the pictures yet (I'm doing mail offline when all I got is a modem line), but: *Somebody Please Save This!* (I can't, as it's across the pond and shipping would be a killer if it can't be included into a bigger load that goes to Europe anyway!) Such control equipment and the like are one of the places where robotics and the modern "embedded system" concept started off! I own a Siemens Sinumerik unit (actually, a rebadged Fujitsu Fanuc mate TG) contains the character and vector generator board for the graphics too - abso-f***ing-lutely proprietary) is missing. I had that here once, but it was trashed before I came to realize I wanted to save the whole thing. I also have a lead on a Sinumerik 810 which is supposed to become available sometime soon. I got some demo, lessons and simulation practice on (C)NC programming two years ago as a part of the practical introduction in industry for EE students. Great fun to watch a huge powerful tooling machine execute commands that one enters on a computer, serial terminal or via paper tape! Yours sincerely, Arno Kletzander Stud. Hilfskraft Informatik Sammlung Erlangen --- www.iser.uni-erlangen.de