Hi, my name is Mike.
I have a bridgeport Interact 1A that had a TNC 150b. It was great till it let the smoke out of one of the servo drives. That was a few years ago now. I removed the servos and fitted large stepper motors and drives, G100 (it's great! and I love it) Mach3 and VFD for the now new AC spindle motor.
Its accurate and easy to use. I have all the jogging joysticks working, Feed rate and spindle over ride, brake, coolant, loads of external input buttons, a full featured MPEG.
I mainly use this machine to make gearboxes for combat robots and internal chassis for R2D2 robots.
CAD is TurboCAD V9 Pro (its old but works well) and CAPSmill V8.1 for the CADCAMM generating GCode files.
To get my machine working again has been a long and frusterating path but well worth it.
I also have a Bridgeport Universal J head and I intend to leave this as a manual mill.
Thats about it for me.
Mike.