Advin Systems PAL/EPROM programmer Sailor-PAL

Jim Battle frustum at pacbell.net
Tue Mar 15 20:00:32 CST 2005


I picked up an older pal/eprom programmed from Advin systems at 
Weirdstuff warehouse when I was in Sunnyvale recently, $5.  I knew I was 
talking a risk, but for $5, who cares?  This unit is labeled "SAILOR-PAL".

Anyway, Advin is still around, and their web site has manuals and 
software for their programmers -- anything since 1996 or so.  This unit 
is from 1986.

Does anybody on this list happen to have documents or software for this 
programmer and is willing to share?  I contacted Advin and their terse 
reply was: this system is no longer supported.  Searching on google 
turned up a few references to this programmer but nothing useful.

My main interest is as an EPROM reader, so even if it isn't perfectly 
calibrated, it should be fine for the purpose.  If I can't come up with 
the software, I guess I'll do what I have done before: used a BASIC 
Stamp to drive the address pins and read the data pins.  The programmer 
would just be more convenient is all.

Thanks.




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