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Dennis, you have any examples or websites to get me started?

"Dennis Jones" <nospam@bogus.com> wrote in message
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> I'd expect the reader to come with documentation (at the very least)
and/or
> a program that was written specifically for it.  If no program is supplied
> and there is documentation, you can just write the control logic yourself.
>
> - Dennis
>
> "Maurice Anderson" <mauriceanderson@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:4170d4aa$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
> > 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
> > news:4170a012$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
> > >
> > > "Maurice Anderson" <mauriceanderson@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > > news:416f57d3$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
> > > > 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
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>