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| - | Project goal: open source tools to drive BP programmers to enable more advanced R&D (ex: raster scan laser to find fuses) | ||
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| - | Secondary goal: explore options to make high quality legacy parallel port units (ex: BP-1600) usable on modern computers. | ||
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| - | ====== Parallel port ====== | ||
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| - | EOL notice: http:// | ||
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| - | LN: ftp:// | ||
| - | LN: is the last one which works with parport | ||
| - | LN: however i'm not sure that one runs on xp! | ||
| - | LN: that one does bitch at you that parport is EOLed | ||
| - | LN: 5270 is the last one which doesn' | ||
| - | LN: if that bothers you | ||
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| - | ===== VM operation ===== | ||
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| - | Card: StarTech Parallel Card - SPP/EPP/ECP EC1PECPS | ||
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| - | Without any programmer you get this: | ||
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| - | something about entering demo mode | ||
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| - | Tried to use PCI express parallel port with VMWare. | ||
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| - | VM performance very poor even before launching BP software. | ||
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| - | Trying EPP: | ||
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| - | ====== JM inventory ====== | ||
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| - | Programmers | ||
| - | * BP-1410 (in the mail) | ||
| - | * BP-1600 | ||
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| - | Socket modules | ||
| - | * SM-DIP40 | ||
| - | * And one more coming with the BP-1410 I think | ||
| - | * SM-84UP | ||
| - | * SM32TC | ||
| - | * Custom BGA module | ||
| - | * SM44QC | ||
| - | * SM100TQ | ||
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