3 Sep
2000
3 Sep
'00
4:57 a.m.
Lack of a box should never stop you! I've hung power supply on one nail and
motherboard on another and run 'em that way while trying to figure out
appropriate packaging.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: Douglas Quebbeman <dhquebbeman(a)theestopinalgroup.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2000 6:50 AM
Subject: RE: Semi-OT: EPROM/PROM/PAL/.. programmer recommendations
accommodate
For my money
it is the Needham's EMP-20, nearly on topic
since they were introduced in 1993 :-)
Yup, ditto that, nice unit...
Its a parallel port based device and their
software programs a _LOT_ of
devices. Further with just the base unit you can program a lot of stuff.
With three "personality" cards you can program every PIC made and nearly
every ATMEL part made. There personality cards cleverly use the SIMM
socket
> as a means for re-routing power/signals to the socket that can
> narrow or wide parts up to 64 pins. I also bought the 68 pin PLCC
adapter
> to program 68HC11's. The "downside"
is that their software continues to
be
> DOS based and so my DOS PC continues its life on my workbench as
primarily
a tool for operating such things.
For a while, I had mine in my 160MHz 486 box (overclocked AMD5x86-133),
which dual-boots between DOS/WfW311 and Win95Retail, then moved it to a
DOS 5 machine that also hosts Linux on UMDOS partitions.
Now it's in a pure DOS-only machine, running open-air (desktop box, no
cover).
-dq