Dave McGuire wrote:
> If you're serious about programmable devices, Data I/O is the only
> real choice in my opinion. The company's policies leaves a bit to be
> desired...their software updates are prohibitively expensive, and it's
> nearly impossible to use their earlier programmers without docs
> because you need to translate chip part numbers to "device numbers" to
> enter into the programmer...but other than that the boxes are great.
I really like the Dataman S4, my friends use it pretty heavily in a
very unfriendly environment.
> eBay. Sure, everyone here poo-poos eBay, but face it...it's where you
> can get anything you want, any time you want.
I think everyone poo-poo's ebay for the stupidity bidding on 'rare' items.
> > One called "Leaper 3" interests me because of its ability to copy one ROM to
> > another without any kind of computer hookup, which I imagine might be
> > useful, but I know nothing else about it.
>
> Ahh, a "real" device programmer. :-) I despise those dumb things that
> can't do anything unless connected to a PeeCee running
> Windows...totally useless to those of us who use real computers and
> don't allow Windows boxes in our homes.
I have a 15 year old EPROM burner (SmartZap) which I purchased in kit
form. It really doesn't need the PC but I have to build the stupid
modules. But it came with the 8031 source code (very nice), schematics
and parts list.
I'm not going to say anything about Windwos at this time. ;-)
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Received on Sat Dec 22 2001 - 16:51:04 GMT