These files come from an IBM industrial robotic arm control computer from the RPI CATS group According to IBM website, this system was announced April 7, 1986 After upgrading to newer arms, the old systems becames e-waste and a number of people grabbed them The original control system was extremely bulky and so I think all of us built new ones instead of trying to get the original to work The original control system essentially consisted of a large power electronics box connected to an industrial IBM rackmount computer (80486 based IIRC) The computer had some GPIO expansion cards that allowed it to send control signals IBM 7575 pages: -http://transistor-man.com/3dprinter_upgrade1.html -ME: TODO: post control system pictures I had them on my (gasp) geocities derived site but thats long defunct Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sdc1 50M 28M 23M 55% /media/TOOL1 /dev/sdc5 103M 966K 102M 1% /media/DOS400