Denford Software & Machines

Hello everybody

My name is George and except from a professional milling machine engineer job am also a teacher at a public technical school teaching cnc milling technology. So at school laboratory we have a triac vmc and I tried to turn it on but I have a problem as you will recognize from the pictures attached . I have found some manuals but there isn't any specific guidance about the startup of the machine. I believe that I need a 3.5 tape in order to start the machine but I don't know exactly what. I tried to download from your site ( https://www.denford.co.uk/dos-vintage-m ... formation/ ) some files in order to try but downloads don't start.
So I am writing to you in case you can help me by any means.

Thanks a lot
King regards George Panagiotidis

Hi George,

Have you got the machine serial number?

It should be on the serial plate on the electrical cabinet.

You will need to create a 3 1/2" boot disc & copy the dos files from the relevant files from the Dos download page.

i should be able to locate the original .opt & .go files from the serial number.

Martin wrote: ↑

Wed 26 Oct , 2022 20:58 pm

Hi George,

Have you got the machine serial number?

It should be on the serial plate on the electrical cabinet.

You will need to create a 3 1/2" boot disc & copy the dos files from the relevant files from the Dos download page.

i should be able to locate the original .opt & .go files from the serial number.

Thanks a lot Martin

I will upload the serial plate as soon as I will get it probably Monday.
Thanks again

I believe that is the plate

The 2 files on the bottom of the inspection sheet are the Fancmd.opt & Fanucmd.go file that you will need to transfer to the boot disc once you haave downloaded the Drivres & Fanucmd from the Denford website on to a 3 1/2" boot disc.

Hope that makes sense.

Fanucmd.opt
NARROWSIMBOX 0
SHOWTOOL 0
USE3D 0
FANUC_SDEVICE machine
UTILS_MENU_1 Dos Access
UTILS_GO_1 dos
TOOLORIENT 0
HIGHSPINDLE 4000
slave_spindlef 0.85
HIGHFEED 2500
HIGHFEEDZ 1500
MAXCONTOUR 90
SLAVE_CONTOURFEED 0.15
SLAVE_CONTOURANGLE 0.15
XIO 1
nopots 0
lubesense 1
maxtool 8
moverangez 235
toolchangez 210

Fanucmd.go
IBM.RS2 2
$3F8 4 COM1
$3E8 5 MACHINE
DENFORD1.KBD 1
18.2 $2F8 3
VGA.CRT 0
FANUCMD.APP

Hi and thanks for your help.
I manage to download from denford website fanucmd and drivers and unzip into the 3.5 disk also the 2 files you gave me. But i get " disk boot failure insert system disk and press enter "
So is there any specific way to make the boot disk?
Or I make something wrong?

Not sure what version of Windows you're using but there should be an option to copy the system files to the floppy or make bootable when formatting it . Some more details here https://kb.iu.edu/d/adav for DOS and should apply to the command prompt in Windows.

I am using win xp and win7 but I get error when I am trying to make the boot disk from cmd and from properties tab of 3.5 disk. Any suggestions?

Knowing what the error is would be useful.

with XP you need to go to Formatt 3 1/2 " Floppy then tick Create MS-DOS starup disc.

Thanks a lot
After all the 3.5 diskette was dysfunctional
problem solved.
Thanks a lot