Re: EPROM burners: are they alwsys interface cards?

["Don Pattee" <t-donpat@microsoft.com>]

The majority of consumer E/EPROM burners now use either a serial or parallel
port interface. They are trivial to come by. You can find some low end ones
for 400 dollars or so.

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Don Pattee (t-donpat)
Program Manager, BED Training
(425)703-2255x14799
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Ludowick <ludowick@aol.com> wrote in message
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> >Question: are they _always_ interface cards? Are some free-standing
> >devices that are unconnected to any computer?
>
> I once used a non-card EPROM burner called the "Shooter" (small grey metal
> box).  It worked well with the IIGS.  It used a serial interface, and was
> controlled by terminal software on the host computer (GS in this case).
You
> would send it ASCII character commands to control it.  I have seen adds
for
> other serial interface burners, too.  You should be able to find one --
start
> hunting.
>
>