Following up on the results of my searching around. The FANUC A860 reader with A20B controller (the normal set up) has a 50 pin output port. There is a device one can buy that receives the signal from the FANUC's 50-pin port and converts to into 25-pin RS232. The device is called a behind the tape reader or BTR. There are models of BTR made for FANUC. I found the Memex MX1000 and MX1100, Sanyo RLC174 and DOSTEK 440A. I am sure there are more.
So...one needs some sort of BTR to make the FANUC A860 (also referred to as FANUC 6) connect to a PC for the purpose of archiving papertapes. There are vendors who sell these used/new. fanucparts.com/btr/ texas-industrial.com and others. Bill On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 4:55 PM Al Kossow via cctech <cct...@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On 5/12/20 1:42 PM, Bill Degnan wrote: > > Al, > > Here is the Ebay auction, I hope the manual is included assuming the > 50-pin port is the output port. > > > > ? there isn't a manual shown > > the 50 pin connector is the I/O > you can find descriptions of the pinout online from people making paper > tape reader replacement devices > > > >