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Old 3rd Jun 2021, 12:17 am   #9
SiriusHardware
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Default Re: Dataman Microdoctor

I think if I had one and wanted to play with it I might be tempted to unplug the printer from the PCB and hang something on the printer connector - a 5V-friendly Arduino probably - and have that reconstruct whatever the PCB outputs to the printer back into text to be transmitted serially. That way I wouldn't feel constrained by the available supply of vintage printer paper.

It's a bit disappointing that it only seems to support a choice of one microprocessor out of the box, at least in terms of the disassembler. I wonder if that is determined by the specific version of firmware fitted, in which case your example may be dedicated to whichever micro its fitted firmware happens to support.
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