I recently bought an old Mori Seiki ZL-15 SM lathe from 1990 (2 spindled, C axis on main spindle), FANUC MF-D4 (I believe it's 0T series), I managed to start it (without the C axis since I cannot find suitable live toolholders) and now it's producing. The problem I have it's that I cannot send/receive data using the RS232 connection and the lathe will not accept parametric programming (#1=50 #2=12 etc), for this reason I'm loosing a lot of time writing programs by hand.
All, thank you, managed to solve the data transfer issue!
Still -I know it is off topic- I could not solve the parametric programming issue, so any input is more than apreciated