Willem EPROM programmer

On Jan 26, 2012, at 3:09 PM, Richard wrote: Given all these factors, Xeltek's modern line isn't too bad. They usually support lots of devices as well, including a lot of vintage ones. They're pricey, though; I've hung on to my old parallel port one (SuperPro 280) that requires me to put a PCIe parallel port in my machine and then run XP in a VM so it thinks that the port is at 0x378 just because I spent a pretty penny on it when it was new and I know it works very well (curiously, though, their NMC9306 algorithm is wrong and there appears to be no way to fix it). Their software looks like barf, but it's certainly basically functional. I've not been displeased with the thing aside from the NMC9306 issue. Their modern low-end device (the SuperPro M) runs off USB and is compatible with modern versions of Windows, and it doesn't look like they ever get rid of programming algorithms; it seems to support at least the major chips I use. It's $600, which is probably less than what your time is worth if you spend 6 hours fiddling with a poorly-implemented piece of crap. I'm seriously considering upgrading to that when I have the spare cash, but that's not right now. They do have a trade-in program, which might make it a little less painful for me. If you need to program a zillion EPROMs at a time, they have multi-ganged ones as well, but that doesn't sound like what you need. http://www.xeltek.com/SuperPro-M-product-17713 - Dave