Date   : Mon, 09 Feb 2004 12:01:48 +0000
From   : Richard Kilpatrick <oldcomputers@...>
Subject: Re: EPROM programmers/copiers?

On 9 Feb 2004, at 11:06, Jules Richardson wrote:

  Mine's an Elan programmer that also does PAL chips, same sort of setup
> though. I've not tried programming with it yet, but it's been great for
> getting data off ROMs - it came from another collector for the princely
> sum of zero pounds. As with yours it has a serial interface for control
> and data transfer (although all control can also be done from the front
> panel)
>
> Only downside is that I don't think it knows about anything bigger than
> a 27256 device, but it's fine for old 80's micros. It has a couple of
> populated cartridge slots which hold all the device data, but of course
> finding any newer revisions than those that I have is not exactly
> likely...

There's an Elan on eBay at the moment, along with an S2000 and an 
Access thing that does a lot of EPROMs at once. Any advice would be 
appreciated :)

> I imagine Richard's in the same situation as me though, and has a few
> non-BBC machines lying around too. Plus I wouldn't chance anything 
> acked
> up on a BBC floppy, so once they're on the BBC the still need to be
> transferred somewhere and onto more reliable backup medium.

Indeed. I have an 80s drum machine that only 140 examples of which were 
produced and mine is the only known functional one. I'd like to backup 
the EPROMs in that for a start ;) Transferring onto more reliable media 
isn't an issue - I can copy from BBC 5.25" ADFS to my Archie, and from 
there to PC/Mac and a CD-ROM. One CD would be enough to hold every 
EPROM I can imagine ;)

Found some Beebug C EPROMs lying around in tubes. I knew I had them 
somewhere!

Richard
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Richard Kilpatrick
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