Willem EPROM programmer

--- On Thu, 1/26/12, Richard <legalize at xmission.com> wrote: It has one thing going for it. It's cheap. That is all. Having messed with one (albiet, an older version), I could find no other redeeming qualities. The hardware was flakey. The software was abysmal. You had to set DIP switches for everything. Programming older chips requiring a 25v VPP required hacking in your own power circuit. Even when you were using newer ROMs, it wasn't a good programmer. I know one arcade collector that smashed his with a hammer out of frustration after spending hours trying to burn some common chips. Unless they've made some serious improvements to the design, I think you're better off with nearly anything else. Personally, I love my Needham's PB-10. It's an ISA card with amazingly fantasitc, easy to use software, and it's incredibly reliable. I also have an EETools TopMax, and while the software isn't as nice, it does have a larger range of supported devices, and it too is reliable. -Ian