Re: Blank PROM's for old Napco Magnum panels

[Bob La Londe <none@none.com99>]

On 5/21/2023 9:35 AM, Bob La Londe wrote:
> On 5/20/2023 3:06 PM, Jim Davis wrote:
>> On Wednesday, May 17, 2023 at 10:00:11â?¯AM UTC-4, Bob La Londe wrote:
>>> On 5/16/2023 8:12 PM, Jim Davis wrote:
>>>> Yep, I still have a few of those old Napco Magnum panels out there.
>>>> Old customer moved out, New business moved in. The Napco 850 is
>>>> still working. Installed it in 1988. It's a new start up woman owned
>>>> company and doesn't want spend to upgrade the panel if it's still
>>>> working. I want to update communication path to cellular but I need
>>>> to program a new account number in the PROM.
>>>> I've got the 410 programmer that still works but shy on PROM's.
>>>> I had one Blank chip which I programmed but I'm not sure I did it
>>>> right and I won't know till I plug it in tomorrow or next day.
>>>> Just in case, I started looking for some chips and they price range
>>>> on line anywhere from ( Get this now) $58.00 each down to $3.00. And
>>>> some say they'll send you a few free samples. But I figure I'd
>>>> probably have to make them believe that I'm going to use thousands
>>>> of them in my newly developed product, etc, etc. But, I don't want
>>>> to go down that rabbit hole unless I have to.
>>>>
>>>> SOOOOOoooo Does anyone out there have a few of these blank PROM's
>>>> stashed someplace they'd be willing to part with?
>>> If its a hard wired panel the upgrade shouldn't be all that expensive.
>>> If you can't program it then the upgrade is justified.
>>>
>>> The Napco Starlink communicators used to be able to be used in "takeover
>>> mode" if the format is compatible. I never did it so I can't give
>>> personalized help, but it was somebody at Napco who pointed it out to
>>> me. Might have been Dave before he got booted upstairs.
>>>
>>> Is the Magnum the same as Magnum Alert? I had a couple small Magnum
>>> Alert panels installed before I switched to Gemini, and while they
>>> almost made me choose not use Napco, they were keypad programmable.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Bob La Londe
>>
>> Kinda all moot now. I was able to program my last PROM chip with the
>> new cellular account number. So panel is setup and (STILL ! ) working
>> at this point. Gave her the obvious warning that there was no
>> guarantee how long it would last. But I'd like to have a few chips
>> just in case I run into another problem with these old panels.
>
> I think this is where Rojas would have been able to help back in the
> day.  He might have been able to burn/copy everything onto an empty
> PROM.  If you like I'll try to see if I can to drop him a line and ask
> if he will weigh in here. I'm sure he no longer has anything though. The
> FBI pretty much took everything.
>

He was online on Facebook a few minutes ago so I sent him a PM.  Maybe
he'll weigh in.


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