I've ordered TL866A after I saw Dave's video.

Actually there were some adapters with TL866A that seller included (SO-8 clip with no need to desolder, SO-8 150 mil ZIF, SO-8 200~208 mil ZIF, SOP28-DIP28, PLCC32-DIP32, PLCC44-DIP40 and some else and a PLCC extractor as well). I've bought it for 90$ US which is about 3000 rubles here in Russia. For example in popular local electronics shops in here you can buy some other programmers from 8000 rubles at minimum and further to 15000...30000 rubles (450$...900$).

And you don't even know will they work under Win7 or not, do they support all chips that you used to use and so on.
I'm very happy with this device. I have tried ISP cable - works well with AVRs. Tested read-write with many EPROMs, EEPROMs and flash chips (some old 27C64, 27C256, 27C512 and so on, SST49FL004A, SST39SF020A, AT29C010, P28F001, MX28F2000, SPH29EE010 and others, many 8-pin EEPROMs). I've even "tested tester"

of RAM chips - checked some old SRAM L2-cache DIPs.

Everything works very well. Driver and software works under Windows 7 x64 and Windows XP SP3 with no difference. Driver installs easily and with no problems, software runs stable, keyboard shortcuts are pretty usefull, buttons/windows don't confuse me at all.
Only under XP I have issue with wrong size fonts and UI falling apart, but solution from
post #71 doesn't work for me because after this actions some (not all) russian-language software refused to work and in some other cases I had hieroglyphs instead of cyrillic letters (but yes, this actions had fixed UI of software). So I had to revert everything back. Also latest version of software (5.91) have some "chinglish" in it. Screenshots are in attachment. And chinese style of starting most (but not all) words from capital letter is pretty annoying.

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Overall opinion: huge thumbs up!

Software UI: thumbs sideways.

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