I had the same problem today, hope it gets corrected.

RO

At 09:40 AM 9/04/96 EDT, you wrote:
>This morning, I received a whole whack of e-mail from PICLIST, most of it
>seemed to be resent from the weekend (which I cleaned up yesterday).
>
>For example, the note below is dated April 5th.
>
>Has anybody else seen this?
>
>Myke
>>Newfound Electronics <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU> wrote:
>>
>>> I happen to notice the latest parallax programmer firmware is in a
>>> 16C55/RC and uses a 4Mhz ceramic resonator.
>>> ....
>>> Impressive as it is appalling, it might give Everett something to
>>> consider given these programmers still actually work most of the
>>> time.
>>
>>Jim:
>>
>>The most common failure mode when you use a "/RC" PIC in the "XT"
>>mode is that it will immediately fail to work at all... "Infant
>>mortality".
>>
>>If an RC PIC works for an hour in XT mode, it's likely to continue
>>working forever, although there may be some minor electrical issues
>>(increased current, reduced frequency accuracy, etc.).  Most of
>>these side-effects, I'd imagine, don't really affect the Parallax
>>programmer in any serious way.
>>
>>-Andy
>>
>>Andrew Warren - fastfwd@ix.netcom.com
>>Fast Forward Engineering, Vista, California
>>http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/2499
>>
>>
>Myke
>
>"We're Starfleet officers, weird is part of the job."
>
>Capt. Catherine Janeway
>
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