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Old 21st Mar 2021, 12:39 pm   #193
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Default Re: I found it! A very sorry looking MK14.

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Originally Posted by Buzby123 View Post
I never mention the official PROM programmer, 'cos I never had one !,

By the time I'd got round to programming EPROMS I'd left Micky behind, and moved onto ZX81.

( I built an ultra-simple programmer for the ZX, I just wish I'd kept that as well. )
I'm surprised no-one seems to have done a replica of the PROM-Programmer, if they are even rarer than original MK14's itself.
There wasn't too much to one / hadn't cost too much, from original photo of one in advert here: http://theoddys.com/acorn/Acorn%20Sy...4%20Advert.jpg

And there is a copy of the manual for it, here: http://theoddys.com/acorn/Acorn%20Sy...M%20Blower.pdf

Although it would be nice to have a detailed dimensioned photo of PCB with tracking etc.

However, as it only programs relatively expensive & getting rare and one-time fusible-link PROM's, then one that also did EPROM's (like Acorn System one, that came from the same original MK14 designer?) and a converter for these back to PROM sockets might be more useful.
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