[sdiy] Re: bcd stuff

[klosmon]

At 10:58 AM 8/3/2004 -0700, Talented Tim wrote:
>Okay, so for those of us who don’t already own the necessary
>hardware/software, what's the cheapest (& hopefully fairly simple) way to
>burn an EPROM? Do you have to buy a commercial burner, or are their simple
>parallel port devices one could cook up (or buy as a cheap kit)? What about
>software? I know there are all sorts of cheap programmers and software for
>micros, but the whole EPROM thing seems a bit more involved. Yes? No? Kinda?
>
>
>Tim (cheap kit) Servo
>
>"Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein
>

I've been using a Needhams PB10 I got off ebay a few years ago for about
$60 --
it plugs into a card slot on my old 386 (that's right, it's simple,
reliable DOS software), software was a free download, and it programs all
the older devices (which is important to me, since I'm working on old
synths)  -- except for the 2708 multiple-power types.

I'm sure there are a number of similar devices out there -- the pre-PIC
stuff is going for very cheap, these days.

~GMM