Well looks like the Dataman 48 aka labtool 48 would be perfect
unfortunately here in Australia it seems nothing is available local even spoke to a local distributor who was keen enough to get back to me on a sunday, said best option was to either pay big bucks to ship from US, buy new 6100 or play the waiting game on ebay.
did also have an amazing chat with someone who inbox me direct and was also very helpful.
Thank you for both for your input. I have learnt alot about this chip and capability with universal programmers today via more research.
I will chat to my client and see what direction he wishes to go down. as there does seem to be a cheap fix for his problem.