990 cat loader

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Originally Posted by 9W Monighan

Don't you hate long load times and with these old controls. Did you repeat incrementally? Rather than separate event. But you did have 1400 holes I guess that would take up some memory that needed broken down.

I broke it in segments (1 group of holes at a time ) the program was close to 200,000 megs or gigs IIRC . something that long I usually run it right off the floppy drive via DNC ( as the manual calls it ) it just been terminating part way through the program lately . could be the floppy drive . I guess I'm gona have to get that usb conversion the older mill I have to load it manually it use to have a tape reader that went bad . you know ,1 made from nonobtainium