You might post on cnczone and see if anyone has experience. Otherwise you'll likely need a DNC program to load programs. One of my cnc machines has a full command interface from the serial port. If it has a serial port I'd fire up some kinda terminal software and see if you get a prompt. I'd poke around the control and see if it has any saved programs. Most cnc machines of this age require you to load the g-code into the machine over serial and run it or DNC (direct numerical control (drip feed over serial)) the code if it's too large for the internal memory. It most likely connects via serial, either 9 or 25 pin. It's possible the laser editor has comm software included but I suspect it's just an editor. The software on the floppy is likely a program that generates the laser g-code either from dxf or conversationally. No idea on this machine specifically, but based on the age (late 90's) I'm going to guess it will run in WinXP, Win2k (or win98.
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