question about pocket 3 programmers?

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I am new to all of this hobby. Didn't know there was so much to learn and so much that is involved in fixing your own games. And on that note, was looking at maybe buying a pocket 3 programmer. Wanting to know what the pros and cons are on these. What are there abilities? What it can do and cannot do? Will they do all the pcb board manufacturers and other? If not, what adaptor or other hardware will I need with it? Wanting to be able to read, write eprom, grom, roms. I know I need an uv eraser. will that erase all chips or will I need something else besides a uv eraser. And if anybody can post links to get this stuff would be great too.


here is the place I was looking at buying..If you wouldn't mind telling me what adaptor are needed too from this website.



thanks in advance
 
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I jus looked into eprom programmers myself. Given I wanted to stay under $300 and wanted a win7 support, I looked at: Top 3100, PP3, and the GQ-4X.

The top 3100 is decent but its made in china and is missing support for a couple old school eproms. It does a LOT of new stuff including a ton of microtrollers as well. Roughly $210

The Pocket programmer 3 does all the old school eproms (except tri-voltage)but I have read multiple reports about them being very flakey. Several members have had problems with it. Roughly $270

The GQ-4X does all the old school eproms (execpt tri-voltage) but a couple of them have beta support in the programmer. I ended up going with this one based on recommendations frm several people here. It runs roughly $100 from

http://www.mcumall.com/comersus/store/comersus_viewItem.asp?idProduct=4282
 
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