Re: Help for Sprint plus programmer

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Date: 01/28/05 

Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 19:00:52 +0000

Keith Williams <krw@att.bizzzz> wrote:

>> 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.

The Sprint programmers were not cheap.

I have a Sprint Expert which became unsupported while the Sprint Optima
(basically the same thing with a parallel port interface rather than
dedicated ISA card) continued. Data I/O graciously offered to effectively
sell me the programmer I already had again at a horrible price less 40%.

The Expert still works fine for parts that were around in 1999 when they
stopped supporting it.

Does anyone know Data I/Os price for a basic Optima?

I recently purchased a Xeltek SP3000U which I am pretty impressed with. A
bit cheap, cheerful, and Chinese but with a lot of bang for your buck.

It is an impressive modern design with USB interface, standalone mode with
'projects' held on Compact Flash. Truly universal pin drivers which are
partly driven by Xilinx FPGAs (which I am sure are dynamically reconfigured
to suit the part you are programming). Support for 18k devices and
counting.

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