Re: Still having eprom troubles (looking for a programmer now)

Cameron,
I've got an "Omni 64" programmer that you (or anyone else) can have for postage. It is marked "OAE" which I think stands for Oliver Advanced Engineering. I don't know anything else about it; I bought it on eBay years ago. If anybody on the list knows about this machine, please fill me in. I can take some pics if anyone is interested.
I'm never going to get involved in programming EPROMs, so this thing is just collecting dust.
Lewis

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Cameron Rector
  To: vectorlist@vectorlist.org
  Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2006 2:15 PM
  Subject: Re: VECTOR: Still having eprom troubles (looking for a programmer now)

  Thank you John,
  It seam so obvious now that you point this out.
  Well I checked all eight sockets and traced the path as far as I could (mutli layered board without schematics) and I only found one solder joint that was questionable. Unfortunatly it did not fix the problem. I tried to call Bytek (makers of the programmer) and there phone has been disconnected.
  So now I am looking to buy a new or "new to me" programmer.

  I see people have listed a 29B, 2900/3900, Needhams EMP-20 & 30 as programmers worth looking for, but I seam to be having troubles finding some of these and I am not sure what I sould have to pay for a programmer capible of programming TMS2532's and TMS2516's
  I will keep searching but, in the mean time if any of you would like to give me some pointers that would be great.

  Cameron

  John Robertson <pinball@telus.net> wrote:
    It would appear that something is wrong with your programmer. 0800h is the start of the top 1/2 of the 2532 and if it is not programming then there is a problem with Address 11 at the Eprom. could be a bad test socket, bad solder connection to the test socket, Programming Logic, or???

    If the programmer is new I would be talking to the manufacturer.

    If it is old then I would suggest you join the Tech Tools List (TTL) and ask for help there - or simply get another unit.

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    At 7:08 AM -0700 9/30/06, Cameron Rector wrote:
      Hello all,
      I am still having trouble programming my eproms. I thought I had some bad eproms so I purchased some new ones. Now after many hours of trying all kinds of things I noticed that each eprom fails the verify check at the exact same address 0800. The ram contains "01" and the device contains "FF" on four chips in a row. Does this mean my programmer is dead or does this mean something else? I am really new at this programming thing, so I could be doing something very wrong. I do have the correct device selected TI 2532A. I would think that what ever is in ram should write to the chip whether it is correct or not; for this reason, I don't think it is a file problem....Correct?

      I saw a recent thread on what programmer to buy; I guess I will research that in the mean while.

      Thank you in advance for your input,
      Cameron

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