7 Mar
2007
7 Mar
'07
11:04 a.m.
At 9:00 PM -0600 3/6/07, Jack Rubin wrote:
Dwight,
The early Data I/O burners took individual sets of digital/analog cards
to program each prom or family. For models 1 through 9, these were
separate cards. In Models 17 and 19, the same two cards were combined in
a Card Pak (carrier) which snapped into the chassis just like the
UniPaks.
...
More to the point, I figured by now that you or one of the other listers
would have come up with a modern programmer for the 1702A - can't be too
difficult other than the -48v programming requirements and I expect a
few others would be interested in the project if someone designed one.
The good folks at Andromeda Research made two adapters for their
Eprom programmer. One that simply reads the 1702 and the other also
writes. They are not cheap though. The reader is $69US (I bought one
and it works very well) whereas the writer is something like $695US!
http://www.arlabs.com/adapters.htm#SPECIAL%20MEMORY%20DEVICE%20ADAPTERS
It seems they cost for the burner reflects their concern for a
product that is reliable - not a kit. Talk to them about it!
Another adapter:
http://www.testech-elect.com/elnec/additional_modules.htm
There is a company in San Francisco that copies 1702s very inexpensively.
http://www.demoboard.com/anchor.htm
John :-#)#
Jack
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