Newbie Advice - Denford Miarc, 1990 Model

[Mad Professor]

Good day all.

This is my 1st post here, and I am new to the denford scene.

I am new to the world of cnc lathes, but I decided I would jump in with both feet.

I have just brought a used Denford Miarc, 1990 Model, S/N: E03726A.

The 1st thing I have done since getting the lathe back to the workshop was to make a backup (image) of the Mirac floppy disk.

The disk contains 40 files.

ADENFORD.KBD
AUTOEXEC.BAT
CGA.CRT
COMMAND.COM
CONFIG.SYS
DENFORD.KBD
DENFORD1.KBD
DOS.GO
DRIGHTS.EXE
DRIP.APP
DRIPFEED.EXE
DRIPFEED.GO
DRVSPACE.BIN
DXF_TEXT.EXE
EGA.CRT
EGA2.CRT
HEIDEN.KBD
HEIDEN1.KBD
HVGA.CRT
IBM.KBD
IBM.RS2
IO.SYS
MACMIRAC.GO
MESSAGES.EXE
MIRAC.APP
MIRAC.EXE
MIRAC.GO
MIRAC.GRT
MIRAC.MSG
MIRAC.OPT
MIRAC.SHP
MIRAC.TXT
MSDOS.SYS
NUM.KBD
OPTION.EXE
PRODUCT.DIN
PRODUCT.INI
QDENFORD.KBD
TEXT_SHP.EXE
VGA.CRT

The disk is labelled "MIRAC Ver2.25", can anyone please confirm if this is the latest version suitable for my lathe?

I was looking on the denford web site and found this link: https://website.denford.ltd.uk/support/9 ... s-software

But I don't know what files are related to my lathe.

Could someone please advice?

Thanks for your time.

Best Regards.

[Mad Professor]

Also if possible could someone please tell me what hardware I am running.
And where to find the right documentation for the hardware.

Best Regards.

[Mad Professor]

From reading around on the forum I am led to understand that the software configuration for my MIRAC are in the .GO and .OPT files.

Below is what is in my .GO and .OPT files.

DOS.GO

#Type EXIT to return ....

DRIPFEED.GO

ibm.kbd 1
18.2
ibm.rs2 2
$3F8 4 COM1
$2F8 3 COM2
drip.app

MACMIRAC.GO

IBM.RS2 1
$3E8 4 COM1
DENFORD.KBD 1
18.2 $2E8 3
EGA.CRT 0
MIRAC.APP

MIRAC.GO

IBM.RS2 2
$3F8 4 COM1
$3E8 5 MACHINE
DENFORD.KBD 1
18.2 $2F8 3
VGA.CRT 0
MIRAC.APP

MIRAC.OPT

AUTOERROR 0
DRAGMARKING 0
DISPLAYSIZE 3
NARROWSIMBOX 0
utils_menu_1 Dos Access
utils_go_1 dos
utils_menu_2 Turning Designer
utils_go_2 ldesign
HIGHFEED 1200
SLAVE_XDATUMFEED 1200
SLAVE_ZDATUMFEED 1200
mirac_sdevice machine
{SLAVE_SPINDLEFACTOR 1.2
mintool 1
maxtool 6
USE3D 0
SLAVE_DCBRAKE 0
TCTYPE 1
MACHINEEXTENTZ 200
MOVERANGEZ 194
SHAPE1 TOOL14
SHAPELR1 1
SHAPEFB1 1

Where can I find more details about the configuration files?

Thanks for your time.

Best Regards.