Hi Dave
Oops, This was after my time there. Thanks for correcting
me.
Dwight
From: "Dave Mabry" <dmabry(a)mich.com>
Dwight and all,
The UPP was the 4040-based eprom programmer. Joe and Robert are talking
about the iUP-201. It's been a long time, but I also upgraded the
memory on mine. I doubled it. I think from Intel it could have either
of two sizes of ram chips populating it. Probably a jumper or such to
change it from the smaller chips to the larger ones. Sorry to be vague
about it, but I seem to only be able to remember bits and pieces of that
life. Just ask Joe! ;-)
Dwight K. Elvey wrote:
Hi Joe
When I was back at Intel, I was responsible for the test
used by the system test on the UPP units. I can tell you a
little bit about them.
First, I have no idea what a "upgraded the RAM memory"
means. These used 4002's. These work on the 4004/4040
bus. They are completely incompatable with other types
of RAM's and they also have input ports on them ( or
maybe it was output but I think it was inputs ).
The internal orginization is not compatable with ordinary
RAM's either( not a simple power of two type addressing ).
The main controller board has a 4040 uP with some ROM
( 4001's ). This ROM was addressed as
bank0. Each of the two slots for the personality cards
was addressed as Bank0 for slot 0 and Bank1 for slot 1.
This way, personality code could be accessed on either
bank to run the particular operation. The code on the
controller board ran the handshake with the parallel
port to the Intelec system.
I wish that I'd saved the schematics I'd had at Intel
but I was not as smart then. I'd also made a board that
I'd plugged into a Intelec system in place of the 4040.
It allowed me to test the hardware and compare ROM code
to make sure every thing was correct. This is also long
gone.
I once even had the ROM code for these.
Dwight
From: Joe <rigdonj(a)cfl.rr.com>
Hi Robert,
Do you have any info on the internal hardware for the 201? I have one
that's dead.
Joe
At 12:01 PM 3/3/03 -0500, you wrote:
Just resurrected my Intel iUP201 Universal
Programmer,
and am writing the control software for it (which will be
available for free).
I'm wondering if anyone out there has any modules for it
that they want to get rid of? I currently have the
2708/2716/2732...27128 module and the 27128/27256 module.
I've also upgraded the RAM memory on the programmer.
I'm in Ottawa/Ontario/Canada, but will pay shipping worldwide.
These things are pretty light.
Thanks,
-RK
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