> I can though answer a question raised by Ray Bellis concerning the price > of the PIC BASIC interpreter. Robin will program a device supplied by the > user for 15 pounds sterling. A PCB for the project will be given away > with the October issue of ETI and the Windows software will also be free > of charge Thanks for the info. This price is reasonable although it still annoys me that something featured in an electronics magazine has extra hidden costs. I'd like to follow up on some of my reasons for this: All of the projects in electronics magazines have component costs. Good articles (IMHO) are those where a circuit idea is sent to the magazine solely with the intention of sharing the idea. In this sense I believe that magazines of this sort should be considered a low-brow [E&WW excluded] `academic publication'. Articles such as the one in question really don't appear to have been written with this in mind. Charging even `as little' as 15 pounds for a 2-minute programming operation isn't `sharing the idea', it's thinly veiled commercialism. You might compare this with the shareware software on computer magazine cover-disks but then I'd point out that the computer magazines don't base their content on the included software. Ray. -- Computing Officer, MRC Research Centre in Brain and Behaviour, Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford University