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Old 2nd Feb 2023, 2:12 pm   #1
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Default Dataman Mempro

During a recent departmental move here at work I found a very dusty looking Dataman 'Mempro' programmer which is a relatively modern 'proper' memory device programmer - USB connected but independently powered so it doesn't struggle to generate the programming voltages required by older devices, and the support software goes all the way up to Win 11. As the name suggests it is focused on memory devices only, so it does not support microcontrollers such as PICs.

What's interesting (and hence relevant in this section) is the considerable age of some of the memory devices it still supports, among them 2708s (various manufacturers) 2532s, both Hitachi and Texas versions, and the Motorola 68764 and 68766. The 2532s and the Motorola EPROMs are particularly useful as drop-in replacements for some of the 24-pin mask-programmed ROMs used in late 70s / early 80s computers.

If any of you have a need to program such old EPROM devices, it might be worth looking out for one of these.

Device support list, Windows support software and manual are all here:-

https://www.dataman.com/dataman-mempro-resources

Even if you don't have one of these programmers (yet) I suggest you grab these resources while you still can because you never know when they might be taken down.

There is unfortunately one group of memory devices which are completely missing from the support list and that is Bipolar PROMs so if you also need to program these you'll have to go for something like the Dataman '48Pro2' or one of its clones, (For example, Elnec 'Beeprog2') all of which are only a little bit shy of £1000 at the time of writing.

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