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From: cem@intelca.UUCP (Chuck McManis)
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Subject: Re: Re: EPROM Programmmers
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Date: Mon, 17-Jun-85 01:31:22 EDT
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> The EPROM Blaster put out by Periphco, Inc. at (408)-244-5214 is
> called the "Programmer 4+", is RS-232 and does both the "normal" and "A"
> versions of the 2716, 32,64,128.
> 
> It costs just undr $200.
>
The EPROM programmer design that was in BYTE in february costs under $30 
to build ($20 if you have some of the caps etc) and it to programs normal
and "A" versions of the 2700 family. Even if you add a microcontroller to
run it (rather than having your host computer run it) it isn't more than 
$50. So why are "inexpensive" multipart programmers like the one above
$200?

--Chuck 
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