Dwight and all,
The UPP was the 4040-based eprom programmer. Joe and Robert are talking
about the iUP-201. It's been a long time, but I also upgraded the
memory on mine. I doubled it. I think from Intel it could have either
of two sizes of ram chips populating it. Probably a jumper or such to
change it from the smaller chips to the larger ones. Sorry to be vague
about it, but I seem to only be able to remember bits and pieces of that
life. Just ask Joe! ;-)
Dwight K. Elvey wrote:
> Hi Joe
> When I was back at Intel, I was responsible for the test
> used by the system test on the UPP units. I can tell you a
> little bit about them.
> First, I have no idea what a "upgraded the RAM memory"
> means. These used 4002's. These work on the 4004/4040
> bus. They are completely incompatable with other types
> of RAM's and they also have input ports on them ( or
> maybe it was output but I think it was inputs ).
> The internal orginization is not compatable with ordinary
> RAM's either( not a simple power of two type addressing ).
> The main controller board has a 4040 uP with some ROM
> ( 4001's ). This ROM was addressed as
> bank0. Each of the two slots for the personality cards
> was addressed as Bank0 for slot 0 and Bank1 for slot 1.
> This way, personality code could be accessed on either
> bank to run the particular operation. The code on the
> controller board ran the handshake with the parallel
> port to the Intelec system.
> I wish that I'd saved the schematics I'd had at Intel
> but I was not as smart then. I'd also made a board that
> I'd plugged into a Intelec system in place of the 4040.
> It allowed me to test the hardware and compare ROM code
> to make sure every thing was correct. This is also long
> gone.
> I once even had the ROM code for these.
> Dwight
>
>
>
>>From: Joe <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
>>
>>Hi Robert,
>>
>> Do you have any info on the internal hardware for the 201? I have one
>
> that's dead.
>
>> Joe
>>
>>
>>
>>At 12:01 PM 3/3/03 -0500, you wrote:
>>
>>>Just resurrected my Intel iUP201 Universal Programmer,
>>>and am writing the control software for it (which will be
>>>available for free).
>>>
>>>I'm wondering if anyone out there has any modules for it
>>>that they want to get rid of? I currently have the
>>>2708/2716/2732...27128 module and the 27128/27256 module.
>>>I've also upgraded the RAM memory on the programmer.
>>>
>>>I'm in Ottawa/Ontario/Canada, but will pay shipping worldwide.
>>>These things are pretty light.
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>-RK
>>>
>>>--
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>>>Robert Krten, PARSE Software Devices +1 613 599 8316.
>>>Realtime Systems Architecture, Consulting and Training at www.parse.com
>>
>
> .
>
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