>
> Wireless Scientific wrote:
> >
> > At 8:47 AM 12/11/96, Boston Medical Technologies wrote:
> > >I'm a PIC newbie (but an EE oldie), and I am just starting to think
> > >about a project based on a Microchip PIC.  I'll be needing to store up
> > >to 10k or more of data, which will be accessed in a sequential fashion
> > >(like a data logger)--take a reading, write to memory, take the next
> > >reading, write to memory, and so forth.  When we're done taking data, it
> > >will come out in the same way, that is, sequentially.
> >
> > how fast are taking the data?
> > craig
>
> Oh, one reading every few seconds or so.

Then it's a no brainer: use a serial EEPROM. Two 24C65 holds 16 Kbytes of
data, is nonvolitile, inexpensive, and only requires 2 I/O lines. Code to
read and write these puppies are publicly available. Not sure where though.

Like I said: a no brainer.

BAJ