[Coco] eprom burner

[Steven Hirsch]

On Mon, 29 Mar 2010, Brian Blake wrote:


> I'm looking at buying an eprom burner. I have a few hobbies (including 

> CoCo's) that require being able to program eproms, PIC's, etc... I've 

> looked into a number of different types, but, was wondering what 

> everyone else uses. I've been looking at this Willem devide:

>

> http://cgi.ebay.com/PCB5-0-Willem-EPROM-Programmer-PIC-BIOS-Shipfrom-USA_W0QQitemZ360201810162QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item53ddb370f2



That looks like a nice rendering of the Willem design and it's about 1/2 
of what I paid for mine two years ago.  If you're planning on burning 
older low-capacity EPROMs, you will definitely want an external power 
supply.

Also, remember that this is "open source" hardware and not a commercial 
product.  They are not always simple nor straighforward to use, but the 
information is all out there.

Be sure your computer has a real parallel port on it (the USB cable is for 
power only, believe it or not).  I am not confident that the software will 
work properly over a USB to parallel adapter.  Worst case, you may have to 
pickup a PCI parallel card.  I bought one of these from Newegg last year 
for about $15.

Steve


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