> Ry Lato wrote:

>> I need to buy a programmer to burn I2C EEPROMS which will be used as
>> ROMS.

>> * Costs around $100 or less
>> * Preferably works off a serial port and doesn't require a daughter
>> card that needs to be installed in a PC (portability).
>> * Has a software interface that would allow me to enter ASCII
>> data, which will be helpfull for my LCD application.
>> * Preferably a Windows software evironment.  Many programmers come
>> with crude DOS software that doesn't work well under the DOS Shells
>> of Windows NT/95/98.

Lynx {Glenn Jones} wrote:

> Couldnt you just make one? have a PIC recieve the serial data from the
> computer(using MAX232 or the like) then have the PIC talk to the I2C
> bus.

  It should be far easier than that.  I'm sure someone else has
mentioned it and I've forgotten the web reference, (Ahh!  Here it is:
http://www.student.dtu.dk/~c888600/newpic.htm ) but you don't need a
PIC, you need a connector to the serial or parallel port, a socket
for the IÓC chip and a handful of cheap components.

  It will work under DOS, it will work under Windoze 3.1 or 94, but - it
won't work under NT.  Very little will, so there isn't much point
fussing about it.

Others: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Way/5807/
-- 
  Cheers,
        Paul B.