Communicating with a MW-3170 magnetic card reader

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One of our customers has asked if we can interface with a serial magnetic card reader/encoder from a old EPOS system. The device has no make only the MW-3170 model number.

Does anybody know how I can communicate with the device? I am currently looking for a programming manual on Google, without much success.

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