Identify this PIC Programmer?

From: Travers Waker (nospam_at_fake.com)
Date: 08/10/04 

Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 13:11:51 +0200

Hi

A friend of mine recently gave me a PIC programmer that he used a few years
ago as part of a course he did at university. Unfortunately, he couldn't
remember much about it (the programmer or the course, which I suspect has
something to do with his alcohol consumption during that time period).

The end result is that I have a PIC programmer, but no software with which
to use it.

I've posted a photo of the programmer at
http://www.geocities.com/traversw1973/PICProgrammer.html. If anyone can
recognise this programmer and tell me what software I need to use to program
PICs with it, I would be extremely grateful.

The programmer has a parallel port interface and takes its power directly
from the parallel port.

The 2 IC's on the PCB are labelled: UCY7406 and CD4066BCN. When I Google
for"7406 4066 PIC", the results suggest that this could be a "Tait" style
programmer. If it is, what software should I use for programming?

There's a resistor soldered across the top of the IC labelled UCY7406. The
one side of the resistor is soldered to pin 8 (top right), and the other one
has broken loose from either pin 6 or 7 (bottom left, both have traces of
solder on them). Can anyone tell me which pin to solder the resistor back
on to?

Lastly, there's what looks to me like a variable resistor towards the bottom
left of the PCB in the photo (the blue rectangular box with the brass
screw). What is this used for?

Thanks very much for any help,

Travers

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