pressbrake1
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Do you remember the hydraulic Cincinnati robots? The green monsters
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daleyd
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Yeah, absolutely - we had a modicon plc that used a programming terminal very similar to the one in your pic that we used for a furnace filling machine. When it occasionally threw its marbles we used to wheel the programmer out of the office and get it craned up to the mezz floor as it was so heavy!! Fault finding was a doddle as it was fairly basic ladder, but modern stuff that is doing complex calcs etc is a different ballgame.You didn't get comments on the early PLC's, just a huge printout of the programme with the comments/functions added, we used to have some printouts the best part of 2" thick, which you had cross reference with what you had on the screen.
Didn't have laptops in those days either
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When it got replaced it took 2 of us to lift it out of the cabinet and we put in a Mitsubishi about the size of small house brick!!
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Early Modicon unit we used 
daleyd
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Ha ha not seen one like that - ours had a small green crt screen and keyboard, it lived on a trolley but it was way too heavy to get up the stairs hence we used to get it craned up!Early Modicon unit we used
You could see about 2 lines of ladder at a time the screen was so poky!
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I was there around 1988 putting in a robot spot welding line for the BE13 (Sierra) think the main contractor was Greykarn?
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My father was there in the eighties putting in the Sierra line. I worked on the fiesta and door line install in the mid nineties
Just piles of rubble there now
Just piles of rubble there now
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How long was you there for?
Hi pressbrake1 I was only there for only 1 year ended up on the re spot line looking after 20 Cinnicatis, loved it there even if it was very noisey and dirty. Robostar5 I also shared a house with a couple of contractors from Southampton who who could really burn both ends of the candel good blokes though
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ABB trialed a new laser finding system for welding the door hinges on to Fiestas, we had to provide on site support for 6 weeks.
