10 Aug
2012
10 Aug
'12
5:22 a.m.
On Aug 10, 2012, at 5:37 AM, Christian Corti wrote:
On Thu, 9 Aug 2012, P Gebhardt wrote:
I use an older Xeltek SuperPro 280, which covers a lot of older ICs (though
I found that their NMC9306-style EEPROM algorithms don't work). It's a parallel
port beast that they no longer sell (for a while, it looks like they had rebadged
it as the SuperPro Z and were still selling it really cheaply). Xeltek's stuff
has worked well for me in general, but it's not cheap.
As far as repairability, there are a bunch of unknown ICs in there with the
silkscreen actually ground off, presumably to inhibit reverse-engineering.
I'm pretty sure Xeltek isn't interested in making this a repairable part.
- Dave
I'd like to ask the list, what kind of
tools/porgrams do you use in order to dump especially older device types as we can find it
in older computer equipment?
We're using an Advantech PC-UPROG for most devices, a Kontron EPP-80 for devices not
supported by PC-UPROG (like 2708) and an Intellec 8/80 for 1702 EPROMs.
I also have a DataI/O 3900 programmer, but it's modern complex crap. There's not
the faintest possibility to repair such a beast (I have a defunct pin driver board,
it's full with ASICs, and no schematics whatsoever).