Wanted: iUP201 modules

From: Dwight K. Elvey <dwightk.elvey_at_amd.com>
Date: Mon Mar 3 20:20:01 2003

Hi Dave
 Oops, This was after my time there. Thanks for correcting
me.
Dwight


>From: "Dave Mabry" <dmabry_at_mich.com>
>
>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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>>>>Realtime Systems Architecture, Consulting and Training at www.parse.com
>>>
>>
>> .
>>
>
>
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>Dave Mabry dmabry_at_mich.com
>Dossin Museum Underwater Research Team
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