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Dennis thanks for your response.  I am obtaining an Eeprom reader that will
connect to my COMM port.  This device itself will connect to an external
Eeprom to read the data.  I need to know if there are any functions,
components, etc that I can use to read said Eeprom.

As for the COMM port, there are many components out there to read data too
and from.  I just need to at least figure out how to get the data from the
Eeprom to the COMM port.

Any ideas, examples, or websites you know of, feel free to fill me in.

"Dennis Jones" <nospam@bogus.com> wrote in message
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> "Maurice Anderson" <mauriceanderson@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> > Hello,
> >
> > Does anyone know how to access data from an Eeprom chip?   I want to
> access
> > an Eeprom both internally on the current computer and externally via the
> LPT
> > or COMM port.  Is there a component available?  Any help would be
greatly
> > appreciated especially examples.
>
> I think you are going to have to be more specific.  Do you mean eprom
> devices that are on your computer, or do you mean eprom devices that you
> might purchase at an electronics store and want to program/read yourself?
>
> If you mean that you want to connect your computer to an eprom device, you
> will need some sort of hardware device that can provide the interface
> between the computer's port(s) and the eprom itself.  You can't just
connect
> a few pins on the eprom to a few pins on your parallel port and read/write
> data to it.
>
> Many years ago, I built an eprom programmer for 2716's which I controlled
> from my Z-80 Big Board computer.  I communicated with the programmer using
> the computer's two 8-bit parallel ports: one port for control, the other
for
> data, and I wrote all of the code to control the programmer using Turbo
> Pascal 1.0 for CP/M (there were no components in those days!).  And
believe
> it or not, I still have that old computer and eprom burner.
>
> If you want to read the contents of an eprom on your computer, then you
are
> going to need a lot of detailed information about the hardware (addresses,
> interrupts, I/O ports, registers, etc), and you'll probably have to burn a
> little program into a BIOS chip (which is itself an eprom!) to do the work
> of actually talking to the eprom.  Sounds like a chicken and egg problem,
> doesn't it?
>
> Good luck!
>
> - Dennis
>
>