Oh, Happy Day!

Much to my wife's chagrin, I just found a new toy... I'd posted to a couple newsgroups & another email list on my continuing search for a decent *affordable* PAL/GAL/EPROM/Flash programmer, and someone suggested I check online vendors for refurbed "obsolete" items. I'd done that before with no luck, but that renewed my interest of looking around, so I googled a little more, and stumbled across a homebrew electronics FAQ: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/homebuilt-comp-FAQ/ which had a nice long list of hardware vendors who sell just these kinds of things, at *way* too much money. But, I persevered, and when I got to the *last* web address on the list, low & behold... Paydirt! http://www.xeltek.com/ They sell their refurbed programmers at muchly reduced prices, and had a decent stock of them, to boot! I needed one that was parallel port capable, as my main PeeCee & my laptop at work use expansion slots that aren't ISA. I got their Superpro L, 40-pin programmer & 74xx series logic tester for $185, plus SH&I rounded it to $200 and a few pennies... I couldn't resist clicking on "add to cart" and "checkout" - they take PayPal for payment as well as Credit Cards -- around 1400 hrs EST. I got a receipt email about 20 seconds later... and 3 hours later, another email that it's already been shipped, with a tracking number! :-) Yiippee!!! So, to make sure this stays on-topic (as 90+% of what I'm using this for is programming stuff for classic computers) if anyone has (or knows where to find) the datafile to program a fresh GAL to fix a gray Tandy Multi-Pak adapter (26-3024, IIRC) for CoCo3 usage, I'd be happy to burn new GALs for anyone needing them for cost of GAL & shipping. I have a Multi-Pak that needs updating, and I dunno if anyone else has this ability (or cares) anymore... Just one thing left to find... an SMD rework station for around the same ($200) mark... (again, so I can make boards for my CoCos...) (The same site has a sale on their SMDeasy station - $349, but that's still a wee bit out of my price range... time to save my pennies...) Well, just had to share my good fortune with y'all... Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- Roger "Merch" Merchberger --- sysadmin, Iceberg Computers Recycling is good, right??? Ok, so I'll recycle an old .sig. If at first you don't succeed, nuclear warhead disarmament should *not* be your first career choice.