Re: Blank PROM's for old Napco Magnum panels

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

On 5/21/2023 9:41 AM, Bob La Londe wrote:
> 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.
>
>


He might have some PROMs.  Give him a call.

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