Start up the disk drive emulator in the command line by typing in python PDDemulate-1.0.py img COMPORT where COMPORT is your serial connection. For example on a mac the command might be python PDDemulate-1.0.py img /dev/tty.usbserial-A7TKMHYD this will make an 'image' of the knitting memory in a directory called img

Now on your machine…

• When "ready" lamp is lit, clear display with CE key, then prepare to save pattern data to "disk" by typing 552, then STEP.
• Display will go blank and then "ready" and "pattern no" lamps will light up with the "track" number 1 in the display. Press STEP.
• Machine will beep when finished, and the track data will now be in the img folder along with your emulator and other scripts.
• The emulator also makes a handy file-01.dat file to make it easy to preview the patterns using dumppattern.py

We'll need that file-01.dat file, so make a backup of it somewhere else for safekeeping! That file contains all your patterns.