CNC machine

Uh, so one thing I noticed when I was scrolling back in the yonder years, which is one year ago, Dan, it's not that far back.

I know, right? Uh, you also have a CNC in your shop.

What? And it's just, it's just there.

Like it's, there's no, no fanfare.

So I think I'll just

be quiet.

But yeah, I, I bought the CNC, um, I think two or three years ago and it was kind of like my, my dream woodworking machine, you know?

Yeah.

Let me know if I was wrong or not.

Uh, so you, uh, you had mentioned that, uh, when we were first talking that, uh, you were looking at getting the new CNC mill.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's cool

... yeah, there's been that, and then, um, I did buy a CNC mill, which is like-

Fantastic news for me.

Fant- yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.

"No, the truck broke down." No.

Uh, but uh, yeah, I got the Makera Z1 Pro.

It's like a fairly small scale, uh, CNC mill.

Um, but with the upgrades for, uh, with the, I think it has like, um, ball, uh, lead screws or ball screws.

And it outlived the card in that world.

A G-code instructor remembers his apprenticeship company still using punch tape to store their CNC programs in 1991.

Paper tape was also used to move binary data for mask programmable ROM and EEPROM chips through the '70s and early '80s.

And some modern CNC systems still measure program size in feet or meters, which is the length of tape the program would need.

The tape is gone and the unit of measure stayed.

The unit of measure is the ghost.