device programmer recommendations?

[Joe R.]

At 01:30 PM 7/26/05 -0700, Glen wrote:
>> Odd.... Promlink works with the 29B, and it's available for free
download at
>> several places on the net. I'm not sure promlink supports the unisite, but
>> I'm thinking it does...
>> 
>> Jay
>
>In addition to whatever software you use to communicate with a
>2900/3900/Unisite, I believe they all need to boot from a boot floppy
>and the programming algorithms are supplied on floppy and without
>those the programmer is useless. 

  You're exactly right, you DO need software just to operate the Unisite. I
believe that also applies to the 2900/3900 but I have no experience with
them.  FYI you don't really need the PROMLink program. It's basicly a
terminal emulator program and gives you the ability to send and recieve
files but as far as I can tell it doesn't really do anything that many
commonly available terminal programs don't also do.

    Joe



 Maybe you can find free images of
>the boot and algorithm floppies on the net, but probably not legal
>images.  I'm sure that doesn't bother some people, but might bother
>others.
>
>Data I/O sells a subcription service to their algorithm updates.  I
>don't see a price listed.  If you have to ask is it too expensive?
>
>http://www.dataio.com/algorithms/keepcurrent.asp
>
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