I just picked up a Lerway STC-1000 on Amazon and discovered, when I cracked it open to solder on a header for programming it, that the board wasn't quite the same as my old one, in particular it doesn ...

[Andrew] picked up a handful of these big STC 8051 chips for a song and dance. The problem he has with them is the clunky VB6 programming software that only wants to run on a Windows box. He buckled ...