At microdata we had a support contract with Data I/O and every set of
roms for the base unit and the Unipak came with a new poster up to date
with the latest parts from the manufacturers.
So you don't need to just get a poster or table or list, but you also
need to match it to the firmware set in your 29xx.
I grabbed a stack of the posters at one time which were old and have
them somewhere. I'm not sure what would have happened to them at heavy
user sites, but I know such as the local Avnet, and Hamilton offices
which we mooched programming time from after I left Microdata had quite
a few. I don't know if they got as many updates as Microdata did.
Randy, did you know of such a program? The program I'm talking with may
have gone around rep firms, as Microdata was using the crap out of a lot
of different roms, and then eproms. Of course if you blew up a rom in
the Data I/O the manufacturers also warrantied them back pretty much w/o
any question, or someone came out to find out what you were doing wrong.
Thanks
Jim
On 8/21/2015 8:05 PM, Randy Dawson wrote:
Something must be wrong here, the 29B/unipak is very easy to use.
I was the rep in Houston (USDATA) and I must have sold 50 of these. It went
for $4500 with the unipak.
A typical demo we would plug in a dumb terminal, its a lot more effective demo
to select a device than from the keypad.
One of these I sold to Gateway Technologies, Rod Canion. The demo and sale
went down at a pancake house on the Southwest Freeway.
They used it to suck the BIOS out of the IBM PC, and form Compaq Computer.
Randy
Subject: Re: Data I/O 29B
To: cctalk@classiccmp.org
From: a...@bitsavers.org
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2015 18:45:12 -0700
On 8/21/15 5:33 PM, Billy Pettit wrote:
This is the poorest documentation I've ever seen on a piece of test equipment.
The problem is they went through at least three generations of
programming packs (individual device, unipak, unipack2/2A/2B)
There is a text file (unipak2.txt) that I sent you that lists
about 1000 devices along with the family and pin adapter.
I gave up on anything earlier than the 2900/3900/Unisite a LONG
time ago. I'd just offer them to people in the bay area and not
even bother testing them. I should have the docs on bitsavers for
them.
