TelegramSam
Plastic
- Joined
- Nov 22, 2016
Hi all this is my first post. Be gentle. So the shop I work for recently got a Sharnoa milling machine with a Tiger 4 control. I believe the machine originally had a tape reader but was upgraded to a floppy. It's a great machine but for the life of me I can't figure out how to save to a floppy. I can get pretty close and it's probably something dumb I'm over looking. I'm hoping someone can see where I'm going wrong or even just guesses would be helpful.
So I write a program in EDIT, Then I somehow pull up a menu like this
1)edit
2)something
3)disk
4)etc...
And I pick disk
Then I get something like
1)format
2)read
3)save
and maybe some more options. I can choose format (i'm using 1.44 mb ibm formatted disks to start) and maybe something happens or maybe nothing it's hard to tell.
When I choose Save it asks me for a file name. I'm not sure if it's asking me to give the file a name or tell it the name of the program in memory. As far as I know there can only be one program in memory at a time. I've tried entering some random names (program1, abcd, 12345, etc) but I just get an error message.
Also I should note that when we first powered the machine on I was able to boot the OS from a 1.44mb disk that was ibm formatted (or at least was when it came out of the box). I have the controller manual but it only makes reference to the tape reader.
Again all shots in the dark and ridicule are welcome. Thanks in advance.
So I write a program in EDIT, Then I somehow pull up a menu like this
1)edit
2)something
3)disk
4)etc...
And I pick disk
Then I get something like
1)format
2)read
3)save
and maybe some more options. I can choose format (i'm using 1.44 mb ibm formatted disks to start) and maybe something happens or maybe nothing it's hard to tell.
When I choose Save it asks me for a file name. I'm not sure if it's asking me to give the file a name or tell it the name of the program in memory. As far as I know there can only be one program in memory at a time. I've tried entering some random names (program1, abcd, 12345, etc) but I just get an error message.
Also I should note that when we first powered the machine on I was able to boot the OS from a 1.44mb disk that was ibm formatted (or at least was when it came out of the box). I have the controller manual but it only makes reference to the tape reader.
Again all shots in the dark and ridicule are welcome. Thanks in advance.