![]() There's a couple that were simply too old to convert the boards to accept a NIC. to floppy drives and walking them around to each Shima, manually running a small knitting 'program' for every run. Most can now pull their program from the PC instead of constantly copying, writing, etc. Now most of them can just "browse" over to the FTP on the central knitting PC. We were able to convert some of them to USB (flash drive) capable but eventually we got some board upgrades from the manufacturer and were able to install NICS. Originally they were all floppy driven (or hand type on the little consoles, which quite frankly would put me in an insane asylum inside a week, for inputting the knit programs and/or changes. We did a TON of upgrades over the last 18+ months - or as much as could be done with the models we have anyway - trying to apply network connectivity to all of them. On that "corestore" website the pics of the CM-2x board set looks a LOT like the board sets in our Shimas (knitting machines). Seem to remember a guy who collected all manner of old tech, although the site doesn't look to have been updated in quite a while its well worth a gander. although I think most all of that old swag is given out to the employees. I've been at Spiceworks for 3+ years, but people like Todd (Spiceworks) who have been around longer, and more importantly might keep track of our early days stuff would be a better bet. My house has mostly regular stuff unfortunately. I call dibs on whatever Peter (Spiceworks) throws out! Yes any old swag from the early days of Spiceworks ?Well, my parents' house is the one with the super old relics. I have a resolution to get rid of a lot of stuff I haven't used in forever. I had a couple of old cisco switches and routers and I kept those and have actually put them into service, since :-) :-) Interesting side note, switches and routers never seem to lose their usefulness. ![]() I cleared out and threw out everything that was not immediately useful and I am a happier more organized man for it. I had piles and piles in my shed, old pc cases, zip drives, floppy drives, cds, old simms memory, old pentium cpus, mother boards, hdds, you name it, the left over hoarding from 20 years tech work. Is it all IT people who are hoarders? I broke the habit years ago during a move from California to Vegas.
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