Hi Tony,

> > I wanted to get a cheap 20*2 or 20*4 character display....with the hitachi
> > 44780 chip in it....whats a cheap place to get this....good quality too...i
> > don't want the thing dieing on me after a while...
> why the 44780 ? excuse the question but I to have a project needing 20x2
> alphanumeric and am as yet totaly unbiased (ignorant) and am just

Industry standard.  Actually hard to get anything else in
Alpha-numeric displays by accident.

Use 8 bit or 4 bit to drive and all the code samples on the
list and web sites will work (with minor tweaks).

Cheers
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Kalle Pihlajasaari     kalle@data.co.za
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