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Old 7th May 2021, 4:41 am   #52
TonyDuell
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Default Re: Early EPROM programmer.

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Originally Posted by ortek_service View Post
It would be interesting to see what's inside the P4000 Production Programmer and the later (E)P8000 & 9000-series ones, to see when they moved-away from the SC/MP CPU. From some of their adverts, they did also list quite a range of more obscure Motorola variant etc. EPROM's on these. They also advertised a BP4 TI Bipolar-PROM-Programmer
There are pictures of the P4000 here :

http://matthieu.benoit.free.fr/GP_In..._resources.htm

including the main PCB which contains an SC/MP (INS8060) and a couple of INS8154 chips.

In my opinion, the P4000 is still an interesting device, you can program it from the keypad, you can copy an EPROM to RAM, edit it, and burn the result back into another EPROM, etc. You have the SC/MP bus available on a header at the back too. But alas the EP4000 is more likely to end up raided for its 8154s.
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