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Programming Static RAM with a PIC16F877A

I’m currently working on my own Z80 computer and one crucial part that I don’t have is ROM, or more precisely, an EPROM programmer. I found that they are very expensive and heard that programming an EPROM chip takes ages, so I needed another solution.

Since I have SRAM chips lying around, I thought I’d use one of them to store the program. I would need to load a program into it somehow, and since it’s volatile memory I would need to  repeat this process every single time after I cut off power from the board.
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