On Thu, 23 May 1996, Eric Smith wrote:
> For prototyping purposes *only*, I have used the 16C84 in circuits which were
> intended to use the 16C61, and overclock both 16C84-04 and 16C84-10 parts to
> 16 MHz.  I really wanted to run them at 18.432 MHz, but they wouldn't go that
> far.  But I would *never* ship a product overclocked.

Hi Eric, David Groski tells me that a 10 meg resistor across the crystal
works wonders with 84's. I heard 20mhz may be possible, however I haven't
tried this yet, only because I don't have the rock. I tend to agree with
you on EEPROM read/writes and **never** ship.

Don...

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

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