Re: Help for Sprint plus programmer

From: Keith Williams (krw_at_att.bizzzz)
Date: 01/28/05


Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 10:50:22 -0500

In article <41fa595f$0$3408$5402220f@news.sunrise.ch>, none@none.net
says...
> petrus bitbyter wrote:
>
>
> > The Sprint Plus programmer was ever manufactured by a German company
> > SMS, which was bought by DATAIO. DATAIO says it was discontinued before
> > they aquired SMS and gives no support at all.
>
> What a pity. The Sprint was one of the finest
> programmers available. While I went through a stack
> of el cheapos, the Sprint of a colleague worked well
> for over a decade.
> The el cheapos somehow didn't like static electricity,
> while the Sprint had a solid metal case.
>
> I was never able to afford one.

I've always thought DATAIOs were horribly over-priced, even though I
work where there are deep pockets. I've had a couple of BP-
Microsystems (http://www.bpmicro.com/) programmers and have been very
impressed. BPM nas very good support and their stuff is only
moderately over-priced. ;-)

-- 
  Keith


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