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I'm curious what you've been doing with it, what workarounds and fixes you've had to do over the years?

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[–] rekabis@lemmy.ca 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

The machinists run their gcode files from USB sticks that are walked from their machine to the CNC

Wait until USB-C becomes the de-facto standard, and new systems no longer come with USB-A, and USB-A sticks are no longer manufactured.

Happened to the floppy drive, too.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If these are machines running Windows XP, I doubt they’re very new.

[–] rekabis@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Wasn’t talking about the CnC controllers as the “new” machines.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Ah, ok. Dongles it is, then.

[–] otherbarry@lemmy.zip 2 points 7 months ago

True, but add-in cards are going to be around for a long time after that for the people truly desperate for USB-A ports on a new desktop.

For a while at work I had to use a add-in card in a Win 10 desktop just to have a parallel port for the ancient label printer we were using.