Date   : Wed, 30 Nov 2005 13:56:58 +0000
From   : Stephen Hippisley-Cox <s.d.hippisley-cox@...>
Subject: Re: Obtaining DNFS and HiBasic ROMs

Excuse the hyperbole! On checking, it says it does 2716, 2716A & 2716B
but there is no mention of 2708s.  I don't know if that helps...

The manual has been scanned in by the following vendor and put on-line
here if you are interested:

http://www.kitsparts.com/mcu/programmer/nsp%20programmer.zip

Cheers
Steve

Jules Richardson wrote:
> Stephen Hippisley-Cox wrote:
> 
>> As for blowing eproms, this is what I do.
>>
>> I use a Genius NSP universal programmer (works with Windows via a serial
>> port) bought on Ebay for around £35 inc postage (checks: there are
>> several on Ebay at the moment, see e.g. Ebay item #5834297970): this'll
>> blow anything.  
> 
> 
> Do you know if that'll do three-rail devices too? (2708's, certain
> 2716's etc.)
> 
> My current one (an old Elan ROM/PAL programmer) won't handle programming
> such devices and is too also old to address anything larger than 1MBit.
> I'm half keeping an eye open for a replacement one day... (2708's may be
> found on the earlier System machines, whilst some ARM-powered machines
> use ROMs larger than 1MBit)
> 
> On the plus side, all control can be done via the keypad / LCD built
> into the Elan programmer - all the machine at the other end of the
> serial connection needs to be able to do is send / receive data. Highly
> recommended way of doing it...
> 
> cheers
> 
> Jules
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