Well, it's not a very good boat anchor - you'd need a pretty small boat. And then you'd need small cats.
I've never used a 60A, but I have a 22. Hopefully you have, or have found online, the manual - it'll tell you the codes to input to switch device modes.
It's a bit different to use than newer programmers. First you convert your binary file to Intel Hex format, and upload it to the programmer via RS232, into the programmer's internal memory. You can't send raw binary data over RS232 for the obvious reasons. Then you can use the programmer to burn the data in RAM to the device. Similarly, for reading data, you read the device into the programmer's memory, then transfer it back to the computer in Intel Hex format, which you can then convert back to binary.
I have a little C program that will convert to/from the Intel Hex.
It won't be able to do any of the larger chips, but it will do the old ones.
-Ian