Old EPROM questions again, EPROM Programmer

From: Joe R. <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
Date: Thu Jul 29 15:36:20 2004

At 12:36 AM 7/29/04 +0100, you wrote:
>> >I don't beleive those are still in production (and if they are, they're
>> >not cheap new). And if I buy second-hand equipment, I expect to have to
>> >repair it, and I would guess that service information is not (easily)
>> >available.
>>
>> You're right, they're not still in production but they handle every
>> EPROM, PAL and PROM that I'm interested in so what's wrong with them? The
>
>There is nothing wrong with equipment that's no longer in production (in
>fact I think just about every instrument I use is discontinued), but you
>can't _depeend_ on a supply of them. I've not seen these units in the UK,
>for example.

   I'm surprised. They're very common here in the US and very popular.



>
>> >> >> your time than to reinvent the EPROM programmer for the 10,000th
time?
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> >Care to suggest some???
>> >>
>> >> Is this a trick question? I guess you don't get out much.
Here's the
>> >> short list: Cold beer, hot cars, hot women, sports, tv, movies, old
>> >> computers, friends, traveling, pets, reading, family, tending my garden,
>> >> taking care of my house, etc etc etc.
>> >
>> >I truely pity anyoe who regards drinking alcohol, women, sports, TV (at
>> >least the TV we get over here), (watching) movies as being more
>> >interesting than constructing anything.
>>
>> Well I know I'm a lot more selective about my TV and movies than the
>> majority of people but are you trying to tell me that there's NOTHING worth
>> watching on TV or movies? What do you have against women, beer and sports?
>
>I watch _very_ little TV, and wouldn't bother at all if I had to pay for
>the license (as opposed to watching my parents' set). UK TV is pretty
>darn awful....

   Same here but we now get enough channels that you can USUALLY find
something worth watching. The Discovery, Wings and History channels are
actually coming out with some pretty good stuff.


>
>Nothing agaist women, except that hacking is generally a lot more fun
>:-).

   Women can be "hacked" too :-)


>
>Don't like beer, in fact don't like alcohol much at all (apart from
>cleaning disk heads :-)).
>
>You've met me. you know I'm not the athletic type. And I have absolutely
>_no_ intersest in spectator sports (or watching overpaid idiots doing
>anything for that matter). In fact the only thing I'd like less than
>watching sport is participating in it!

   I enjoy some of the more technical sports including auto and airplane
races (the Reno Air Races are lots of fun!). Some like the robot battles
but I never cared for it. But there are some contests for home built
robotic helicopters and the like that are pretty darned interesting.


>
>
>I assume you think the chap who wrote 'The Voice of the Crystal' and
>'Instruments of Amplification' was wasting his time.

   I've never heard of either one.
  

 His home-made valves
>and transistors are, to be blunt, lousy. But he had a go, and that, I
>think, was well worth doing. I intend trying some of his experiments
>sometime too. Maybe I'll learn something...

   I have nothing against building something like an inovative crystal
radios (in fact, I'm working on one now) or vaccum tubes but I just don't
see the point in building a common, readily available and cheap device like
an EPROM programmer. I build that kind of thing when I was a kid and I just
don't see that I'd get anything out of building another one.

    Joe
Received on Thu Jul 29 2004 - 15:36:20 BST