My concern was that it was becoming personal.
Tony, your website looks like you are pretty advanced. Is it
possible that John's paper is aimed more at the beginner? Reviews
are most definitely on topic but keep in mind that a reasoned
explanation is a lot more useful than a slam.
Posting your On Topic website, commercial or not is allowed here
but only if you stay around to answer questions. John is obviously
staying to take part, as are you.
I was sent a 5.25 inch disk, Commodore formatted, that contains a
Basic program for a Commodore PET computer. It is for milling and
drilling PCBs. That is his machine in the Files section. I have a
C128 in the basement that I'm going to try and read it with. I'm
not going to set up a PET, don't have one, but I'm looking forward
to picking over the code and seeing how he did it.
Otherwise I'm thinking of tearing apart an HP pen plotter. Use the
electronics with beefed up stepper drivers and drive a homebuilt
engraver. Then I could just use a vector drawing program like
CorelDraw, Illustrator, etc. to drive it with HPGL driver.
Has anyone here bought and maybe built one of John Nachbaur's
plans?
Steve Greenfield
--- Tony Jeffree <tony@...> wrote:
Steve -
It is unfortunate that this has ended up as a slanging match, and
I
apologize for my part in that.
My intention, when I saw what looked like a pretty blatant piece
of product
marketing on John's part (pointing the members of this eGroup at
his web
page offering his booklet for sale), was to point out that the
product
might not live up to expectations as to value-for-money (as it
most
definitely had not, in my case).
I believe that if you put stuff up for sale, you'd better be
prepared to
defend how much you charge for it.
Regards,
Tony
At 13:20 01/04/2002 -0800, you wrote:
John, let comments like his roll off your back like water off a
duck. Don't return insult for insult, either of you.
I like John's principles- use good-enough parts so you don't
spend
a fortune. Not everyone -needs- to machine steel, me for
instance.
I'm also one of those people who does not have a machine shop,
who's current milling machine is a drill press and clamps and
who's
lathe is currently just a wood lathe.
Steve, the moderator
--- crankorgan <john@...> wrote:
-snip-
--- In Homebrew_PCBs@y..., Tony Jeffree <tony@j...> wrote:
-snip-
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