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From: stef@joker.mil.ufl.edu
Newsgroups: comp.robotics
Subject: IBM 7565 alternative controller ?
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Date: 10 Jun 91 17:07:16 GMT
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In our lab we have an IBM 7565 hydraulic-actuated gantry robot.
This robot is controlled by a wardrobe-sized computer called "Series/1"
based upon a 20-years-technology which has at least these
undesirable features:

- low performance
- somewhat unreliable electronics
- no support for interconnection and networking.

Does anyone know of a controller for the 7565 running on a different
platform either supporting the same language (AML) or a  different one ?

		Thanks.

	
			Stefano Caselli
			Francesco Zanichelli

			Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione
			Universita' di Parma -Italy

		E-mail: caselli@prsun0in.cineca.it
			zanichelli@prvxin.cineca.it