As I have mentioned before, a company making a lottery ticket kiosk is
likely to have a standalone prom burner, which they could use to set
the video mode.

A prom burner could be useful to normal end users.  In addition to setting the
video mode on OGD and OGC, it would provide a safe way to upgrade firmware
on mainboards while keeping the original prom unchanged.  A safe way to try
linuxbios.  A way to recover computers with non-functional firmware.

Rather than a complete standalone prom burner, I'm thinking of something
similar to the readers they have for memory cards used with digital cameras.
Plug a prom chip into the device, plug the device into a computer, and
read/write/erase the prom as desired.  I suspect that USB would be the
most popular, but it could plug into Ethernet, Firewire, SCSI, etc. instead
if that made more sense.

Does something like this already exist?

How many different packages are in use for proms?
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