Hi ... and once you find that old programmer, a copy of the OS that will run it's support software. Don't seem to have many Windows for Workgroups machines running around here any more ....
Then you hope that there's at least one floppy drive in the universe that will load what you *hope* is the right software for the programmer. I'm having a tough enough time finding a working example of a PIC programmer (with socket) running around the basement here. I have found two so far that I believe died a long time ago .... Bob On Oct 22, 2010, at 10:00 PM, bownes wrote: > Don't forget to scare up the appropriate programmer. Those are getting hard > to come by too. > > > > On Oct 22, 2010, at 7:02 PM, Chuck Harris <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I don't believe the parts are failing due to structural >> problems, but rather are just leaking down their buried charge. >> >> It should be quite possible to refresh them by erasing them and >> reprogramming. >> >> -Chuck Harris >> >> Bob Camp wrote: >>> Hi >>> >>> Find pin compatible replacement EPROM's while you still can. They don't >>> make all those small / slow / multiple supply >>> / parts any more. Saves building all sorts of strange adapter boards as >>> well as re-shooting the memories. >>> >>> Bob >>> >>> >>> On Oct 22, 2010, at 6:44 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >>> >>>> In >>>> message<1498648302.205602.1287785250803.javamail.r...@sz0110a.emeryville.ca >>>> .mail.comcast.net>, >>>> [email protected] writes: >>>> >>>>> What to do? Pop out the parts and rewrite them? Dump them to disk as well? >>>> >>>> Make backup-copies while they have no problems. >>>> >>>> -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [email protected] >>>> | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD >>>> committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can >>>> adequately be explained by incompetence. >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- >>>> [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to >>>> https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the >>>> instructions there. >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- >>> [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to >>> https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the >>> instructions there. >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] >> To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts >> and follow the instructions there. > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
