Semi-OT: EPROM/PROM/PAL/.. programmer recommendations

From: Douglas Quebbeman <dhquebbeman_at_theestopinalgroup.com>
Date: Sun Sep 3 07:50:34 2000

> For my money it is the Needham's EMP-20, nearly on topic
> since they were introduced in 1993 :-)

Yup, ditto that, nice unit...
 
> Its a parallel port based device and their software programs a _LOT_ of
> devices. Further with just the base unit you can program a lot of stuff.
> With three "personality" cards you can program every PIC made and nearly
> every ATMEL part made. There personality cards cleverly use the SIMM
socket
> as a means for re-routing power/signals to the socket that can accommodate

> narrow or wide parts up to 64 pins. I also bought the 68 pin PLCC adapter
> to program 68HC11's. The "downside" is that their software continues to be

> DOS based and so my DOS PC continues its life on my workbench as primarily

> a tool for operating such things.

For a while, I had mine in my 160MHz 486 box (overclocked AMD5x86-133),
which dual-boots between DOS/WfW311 and Win95Retail, then moved it to a
DOS 5 machine that also hosts Linux on UMDOS partitions.

Now it's in a pure DOS-only machine, running open-air (desktop box, no
cover).

-dq
Received on Sun Sep 03 2000 - 07:50:34 BST