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Resurrecting a Dataman S4 PROM programmer

Accepted submission by owl at 2022-03-15 18:08:19
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owl [soylentnews.org] writes:

https://blog.jgc.org/2022/03/resurrecting-dataman-s4-prom-programmer.html [jgc.org]

The Dataman S4 is a lovely piece of 90s' kit: a PROM programmer and emulator launched in 1992. I recently bought one from a seller on eBay and needed to resurrect it. It was in perfect working order but needed a little awakening to get it going. Happily, Dataman are still around, still provide online support for the S4 and still sell accessories for it.

With a little work I have a fully functional S4 and recently used it to burn new firmware for a Minitel 2 (that also dates from 1992), but that's another story.

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