DATA I/O Unisite Manual

Bruce, I have read a number of old post's on Data-IO...and they seem to be right in line with what you state on their tech support on their products. I called a different sales engineer and he was quite nervous when I mentioned the user's guide listed the maintenance manual. He finally fessed up and said they used to have a service manual available( which also came with diagnostic software ) but they were having legal issues with ICs not being programmed right after UNISITEs were repaired by other than "their certified factory". He proceeded to tell me that to become a certified repair point for DATA IO , a training and certification could be arranged ...for a price. I then asked "do you have a list of the service centers in the US? " His response was" there are none besides the one in Redmond,WA (Data-IOs main office), the cost to become certified is very expensive". He is sending me a quote. Please send me ...offline... a price for the waveform generator board. Hutch "Bruce Lane" <kyrrin@bluefeathe To: cctech(a)classiccmp.org rtech.com> cc: Sent by: Subject: Re: DATA I/O Unisite Manual cctech-bounces@cla ssiccmp.org 09/01/2004 09:39 AM Please respond to "General Discussion: On-Topic Posts Only" Hi, Hutch, *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 01-Sep-04 at 07:27 Steven_R_Hutchins(a)raytheon.com wrote: unisite <snip> Data I/O is lying to you, or the person responding to your question was ill-informed. DIO is, unfortunately, well on their way to becoming the Microsoft of device programmers in that they have maintenance information available, but they do not believe in releasing it or doing anything else to support self-maintained programmer owners. They've gotten excessively greedy in recent times, and they want EVERYthing to come in for service. How do I know they're shining you on? Because I have a maintenance manual for the earlier Unisites. I picked it up during a scrounge run in the Bay Area several years ago. If you want to try and bamboozle them, ask about the availability of part number 972-0014-003. It may have been superseded by a later edition. If you cannot get DIO to cooperate, manual-wise, I believe I have a spare WG board, still attached to a Unisite rear panel. I could probably be convinced to part with it for a small fee. Happy hunting. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Bruce Lane, Owner & Head Hardware Heavy, Blue Feather Technologies -- http://www.bluefeathertech.com kyrrin (at) bluefeathertech do/t c=o=m "If Salvador Dali had owned a computer, would it have been equipped with surreal ports?"