27 Jan
2012
27 Jan
'12
12:33 p.m.
On Thu, 26 Jan 2012, Mr Ian Primus wrote:
--- On Thu, 1/26/12, Richard <legalize at
xmission.com> wrote:
Yup. I ended up doing exactly that for exactly that reason.
Does anyone have any experience with this
device?? It's inexpensive and
seems like it might handle the needs of ROM/PROM/EPROM dumping and
EE/EPROM programming.
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.
Seconded and thirded.
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.
For older chips, you cannot beat the PB10 in an old ISA motherboard. But,
the emphasis is on "older" there :-)
Steve
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