On Siemens and Allen Bradley PLC's you can upload from the PLC to a laptop if you have the software and correct cable (PLC terminology is backwards from the normal way of thinking) The problem with this is when the PLC programmer writes the logic they have all kinds of comments that tell you what the code is doing. None of that gets downloaded to the PLC, just the raw code to save memory. So if you did get the code off somehow, you would have no idea what you were looking at if it didn't work. On top of that the Touch screen would have another separate program needed to communicate to it and its own code. If either of these two pieces were not on the machine you would have a giant paperweight unless Marcodie were to give these to you. But then even if they did, depending on the PLC you would need a copy of the software, and in the case of a Siemens PLC a special $500 cable just to hook up to it. Not to mention Siemens PLC software is in the Thousands like Jason mentioned.
If Marcodie wouldn't give either of these two pieces of information to you, it wouldn't matter if the press were free, it would be a waste of money on something as complex as that machine.
