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Old 6th May 2021, 8:33 pm   #47
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Default Re: Early EPROM programmer.

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Originally Posted by TonyDuell View Post
My first homebrew EPROM programmer was a couple of boards of TTL, ...
My first, and only, homebrew EPROM programmer was a 74121 monostable, a transistor, some resistors, a capacitor, and three PP3 batteries.

The 2716 EPROM sat on the address and data busses of my ZX81. I can remember vaguely how it worked. The 74121 HALTed the CPU while making the programming pulse, so from the CPU's point of view it was just writing data to addresses.

I programmed lots of EPROMs with that little board. I wonder where it's gone now ?.
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