EPROM programmer

Jim Brain wrote: Mine's a 'Universe 1000' made by Elan - it's a combined EPROM/PAL programmer with an on-board keypad/display and a row of about 10 ZIF sockets (of various sizes), all driven by a Z80. Local memory is 1Mbit, which limits what it can do even if the cartridges I have for it would do more (although it's rare I need an EPROM anything like that size, 128Kbit is normally my limit). It's old, but it does the job (no support for 3-rail devices though). Main plus for me is that comms to the outside world is RS-232 rather than something weird, so it's easy to hook up to what I have, and the fact that it's got all its smarts locally means that I'm not stuck with custom control software issues. One day I should grab a photo of the internals for posterity though - it's about the worst build quality of anything I've ever seen (and the chassis/casing appears to have been designed by a 5 year old). I'm amazed it works at all, but it does what it does very well... cheers Jules