1998 ArcMate 100i - File Transfer Questions

    I'm looking at a pretty clean 100i from 1998, and while I actually have some experience with robots of this vintage, I've never done a weld robot this old. For those of you with experience: what is/is there a preferred method for uploading new welding programs to the robot? I've had intermittent luck with KFLOPPY on the Mate (yes, Mate - I believe a 1995 'Mate' with about 100,000 hours on it) but never actually tried to upload anything to a robot with KFLOPPY. It's such a pain to use that I have honest-to-god printed out backups of all the programs and settings (because, hey, it's a 1995 robot so there's not 1,000,000 screens like on the new stuff.)

    I also work on a couple of CNC machines that are still a 3-1/2 'floppy' only system, so if I can actually just plug a 3-1/2 drive into a serial port, that's fine by me too. My problem is that I have zero experience actually doing it, and am entirely reliant on my programming software to generate weld programs, because doing weld programs by hand on the TP is nuts.

    Thanks All!

    Hi StoopidEngineer,

    first get a proper cable (and usb converter)

    then install dosbox

    (in (windows) usb settings set com1 as port )

    start dosbox

    --> com port mapping

    - serial1=directserial realport:com1

    --> mount your kfloppy to dosboxes c

    -mount c c:\kfloppy

    -->type

    - c:

    - kfloppy.exe

    - in "kfloppy settings" set port number com1

    good luck..

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