On Wed, 1 May 1996, David E. Queen wrote:
> Someone said a 16c84 could be reprogrammed maybe a 1000 times.
> A news release said the new new 16c84a could be reprogrammed 10,000,000 times.
> Is the 1000 limit on the 16c84 accurate?

I did an experiment 'To Spade a PIC' in April last year and posted the
results on the MicroChip BBS at the time. This was done to find out how
many times I could re-program one of these devices.

The results can now be found from the page at:
http://www.labyrinth.net.au/~donmck/promo.html
Don...

Don McKenzie donmck@labyrinth.net.au
DonTronics Tullamarine, Australia
http://www.labyrinth.net.au/~donmck

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