Operaghost
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And don't get me started on why you would upgrade to Windows ME
He seemed like the kind of guy who enjoyed his summers.
I don't see posts from Ron, did he use another name here? I used to belong to his Industrial Maintanace forum. It actually survived him for another decade or so but has gone to 404 land now.But it gives me an opportunity to read the old posts from Ron Doran, who died in December 2007, not much older then than I am now.
I hope his wife and kids are doing well. He seemed like the kind of guy who enjoyed his summers.
Back in 2004 when this thread started, PLC-2 to PLC-5 was a more viable concept. Still, were it me I would have leapfrogged over direct to Logix even then, unless maybe there was a large installed based of PLC-5 already. Then had I gone with the PLC-5s, I would have been kicking myself in the rear by about 2010...I would never go with the PLC5, go with either Compactlogic or Contrologic
convert the 5's main rack to a remote rack and change any other remote racks to ethernet remotes. The you can replace the I/O as needed when they go bad or on your schedule later. the conversion is not to bad.
@Dirt
15 years too late??? I just realized that. When I was logged in yesterday, this was the VERY FIRST POST on the screen. I never paid attention to when this thread was started.
That's a big Jump ...... maybe just go to a 5/02 to be safe.