[Coco] 2764 EPROM vs 2864 EEPROM

[Christopher R. Hawks]

On Sat, 28 Sep 2013 21:00:42 -0400
Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:

> On Saturday 28 September 2013 21:00:03 Chris Osborn did opine:
> 
> > On Sep 28, 2013, at 5:09 PM, tonym wrote:
> > > The market, well, how many commercial businesses actually use
> > > Linux for tasks like burning EPROMs, etc...? Also, nowadays, how
> > > many people actually NEED to burn EPROMs?
> > 
> > The burners do more than EPROMs though. They do lots of different
> > flash chips and some can do some of the microcontrollers. Things
> > that are used by hobbyists. And it's really not about a market,
> > since as you said, they want free and open. I would expect some
> > hacker to reverse engineer a burner and cobble together some
> > software for their own use, and then share it. It's also something
> > I would expect one of the ultra-stubborn purist Linux enthusiasts
> > to do that refuses to do anything on Windoze.
>  
> Did I hear someone calling my name?  :)
> 
> 
> Cheers, Gene

	Might have been me they were calling...

	Or the linux guys would do this...

Build your own Parallel Port EPROM Programmer
http://outflux.net/software/pkgs/EPROM/

Build your own Parallel Port EEPROM Programmer
http://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/apps/circuits/EEP-0.2.html

$5 Parallel Port EPROM Programmer
http://hackaday.com/2006/11/08/five-dollar-eprom-programmer/‎


Christopher R. Hawks
HAWKSoft
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