[ale] OT: Old TI PLCs

[jcpilman at gmail.com]

At least one of our guys has experience with this.  I'll check in the
morning and contact you off list, unless you have already solved this
one.
...John

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 11:23 AM, William Bagwell <rb211 at tds.net> wrote:
> Another OT, potentially interesting and *hopefully* non-controversial
> topic.
>
> We have a couple of machines at my work that use TI 500 series PLCs from
> the late eighties. Both are 530C's with diffrent dash numbers (I'm at home
> today and do not have either number with me) Our new (to us) machine came
> with a dead battery which means it had lost its program. OEM sold us a
> program that is *supposed* to work. However, they are not the original
> OEM just the current owner and offer no further support.
>
> About five years ago our existing smaller machine took a dump and lost its
> program. A coworker found an out of state guru who set us up a way to
> re-load the program with an old DOS based computer. Got us through that
> problem but is little help with the current. We can 'talk' to the
> new machines PLC with the software for the smaller machine, but can not
> load the correct program since it is in a diffrent format.
>
> Looking for someone in state we can hire to help with this. Or if it is
> even possible, someone (in or out of state) that can transfer the program
> from .vpu files to the .530 files the DOS based program is looking for.
> (This is more than a simple re-naming) In either case paying them for
> their skills is not a problem as long as air fare is not involved.
> --
> William
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