Finally got the software to recognize the SD card. I had to stick it into the unprogrammed register and save to SD Card.
It then said that it could not because it could not find a folder. There was a Create Folder option so I did that, dumped the stuff to the SD card (which took over five minutes for about 23K of data!) and then, moving the card to my laptop, I was able to read and program it.
All the function keys (% discount, Canadian currency, etc...) still had to be programed by hand, keystroke by keystroke, from the register but I could do the categories (Grocery, Produce, Alcohol, Retail, etc...) from the 'puter.
Only took three hours.
One thing that was very interesting is that when a company releases a new version of a product, they will generally fix the failure-modes found in the previous model. In this previous model, there was a small NiCad battery that held the programming data. I am planning to replace this with an external set of AA batteries. The new model had space for - you guessed it - two AA batteries.
Go figure...
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