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

Cameron, If you're looking for a relatively cheap and good little
programmer, consider
the Pocket Programmer II. It will program most everything you could
want from the
classic era. I've used it for years and have been happy with it.

Scott C.

Cameron Rector wrote:
> Well, I have been researching this OAE programmer and I am not able to
> come up with much information on the programmer.
>
> I did learn that the company was owned by Doug Oliver and OAE is
> "Oliver Audio Engineering". They were well known for there
> inexpensive, high speed paper tape reader. I also learned that they
> went on to make "high end" eprom programmers in the 80's.
>
> So at this point, if you have the manual, cables and programmer I will
> be happy to send you the money for shipping. Let me know how much it
> will cost to send to Northern California.
>
> Cameron
>
> */Lewis <lmills01@mchsi.com>/* wrote:
>
> 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 <mailto:crector@pacbell.net>
> *To:* vectorlist@vectorlist.org
> <mailto: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.
>
> How to subscribe or unsubscribe to TTL
>
> http://seven.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/techtoolslist
> FTP site is: ftp://ftp.flippers.com/pub/TTL/
>
> John :-#)#
>
> 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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