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All Wabeco lathes (and millers) can be factory fitted - or retrofitted - with a kit when enables them to be driven, through a supplied interface, by a standard PC.
The now well-established system of stepper motors driving through toothed belts is used but, because the standard feed screws are retained, and not replaced by of zero-backlash ball screws, the ordinary hand controls remain operative - a most useful feature.

The way to do it - the 6000 Series lathe has its cross-feed stepper motor mounted out of the way at the back of the slide - and the leadscrew drive neatly concealed.

Possibly not the way to do it - though lots do. The cross-feed stepper motor mounted on a vunerable, overhung bracket at the front of the lathe.