From: muratlanne@gmail.com   
      
   "Bob La Londe"  wrote in message news:vfuc8v$2ap2c$1@dont-email.me...   
      
   ...   
   The thing that excites me most about it (Onefinity Elite Foreman) is the   
   Masso G3 Touch controller it comes with. ...   
   Bob La Londe   
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   I began designing machine control panels with paper drawings to be made on a   
   shear, brake and Strippit punch. CAD/CAM and plasma cutting is quite an   
   advance but I must say the old way was easy to learn and worked pretty well.   
   I was earning a living with just a pencil.   
      
   Learning the old manual methods has been useful when I needed to modify   
   existing equipment that was too awkward or flexible to do on a machine.   
      
   I also designed relay ladder logic for actual relays, before PLCs arrived. I   
   began circuit board design with black tape or a laundry marker and advanced   
   through computerized design and simulation as they developed. The   
   electronics I learned in the Army used individual transistors, then I   
   closely followed the growth progress of ICs through FPGAs that could   
   self-configure to match a CAD schematic. The computer revolution has been   
   interesting to observe and participate in.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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