On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 07:54:30AM -0800, Vartan enlightened us thusly
> This may be a dumb question, or I may have already answered myself,
> but does anyone know of an inexpensive way to get a few chips
> programmed? I have 4 PROMs that need to be replaced on a machine, I
> have the data to go in them, but I have no chip programmer. The chips
> themselves are not too exotic, from what I can tell. Unfortunately the
> options that appear to me are either buy a programmer, which I do not
> have much experience with and are somewhat expensive for a one-time
> job; or to get it done by a company who specializes in that, and from
> what I have seen they are either prohibitively expensive (for me at
> least) and/or do huge batches at a time. Because this is just a
> personal project to get a machine working and not for instance a
> crucial device running a big business, I seem to be stuck in the D-I-Y
> category, which would probably take more time and money than I can
> afford right now... I guess if I could find a fellow hobbyist in the
> Virginia area....
Often you will find that electronic suppliers will program the eproms
free for you if you buy the eproms from them. My local ones do.
Presuming this route fails, you need a favour. I'm in Ireland, and have
a mickey mouse programmer that does the trick, but you hardly want to
send it that far. If you cannot locate a hobbyist try the yellow pages
locally under Electronic Equipment - Repairing or whatever they call it.
Do not neglect to pester your local radio hobbyists, and tv guys.
Automation guys also have a prom programmer lying about and have been
known to do this for beer money.
As an absolute last resort, buy your own programmer from somebody like
bgmicro.com. If You charge $25 per chip, you'll get most of the price
back ;-)
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With best Regards,
Declan Moriarty.
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