Mannesmann Tally MT660 Line Printer

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Mannesmann Tally MT660 Line Printer

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We are trying to interpret the data sent from a Flight Simulator (by FlightSafety International) to an old Mannesmann Tally MT660 Line Printer

At the moment, we have not found much information and the raw data bears no resemblance to the output - does anyone have any manuals for this which may help?
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Re: Mannesmann Tally MT660 Line Printer

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We are finally making some progress here.

The main issue was that the centronics cable was losing a lot of signal strength - most signals were less than 2V. The customer has reduced the cable length and resoldered it and we now have proper data to deal with.

We are currently writing the printer emulator for the Mannesmann Tally MT600 range of line printers.
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