At 03:16 PM 21/06/96 PDT, David S. Ebsen wrote:

>  Second, spend the extra money and get the ZIF socket,  my first 16c84 now
has 4 or 5 home made pins on it.

For those on a limited budget:
To avoid the broken pin syndrome one could use a simple 25 cent solution
instead of spending big Dollars on a ZIF socket.

I insert my experimental PIC into a spare IC socket and use this complete
assembly as one unit while programming it and transferring it to the
testbed.   This saves pin lives on the PIC because if a pin breaks, it is
only the cheap socket that needs to be replaced, not the PIC.


  |=================|   <=== PIC              \
  |_________________|                          \
   | | | | | | | | |                            >    Use as one unit
  |-----------------|                          /
  |_________________|   <=== cheap IC socket  /
   | | | | | | | | |


  |-----------------|   <=== IC socket on programmer / testbed
__|_________________|___


Paul.






> Third, I recomend you start with the 16c84/10, it's better if you want to do
> any serial communication or just need a little more speed.
>                                                                          Good
> Luck,  Dave
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