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Found a stat about G-code usage that surprised me
Was reading through some old Machinery's Handbook I picked up at a garage sale last month. Turns out in 1980, only about 15% of shops even used G-code for their machines. Most guys were still running everything off cams and manual templates back then. It's crazy to think how far we've come in 40 years. Any of you older guys remember when shops first started switching over to CNC?
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nancy15417d ago
My uncle ran a machine shop back then and he said the first CNC they got was a real pain to program... had to punch everything on paper tape and if it tore you were starting over from scratch.
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You ever hear about my buddy Frank's first experience with CNC? He was working at a shop in like '82 and they got this big clunky machine. He spent all day punching a paper tape for a simple bracket job, then someone spilled coffee on the reader. The whole tape got eaten by the machine, and he had to start over from scratch, just like your uncle said.
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