Martin McCormick wrote:
>
>         Is there any way to tell when a 16C84 is getting close to the end of
> its reprogrammability so that one can put some stable code in it and
> permanently use it for something that isn't likely to change?
>
> Martin McCormick
I recieved no warning when my 84' 10mhz blew it's cool. The rate of
errors did not noticably change.I added circuitry to my an589 type
programmer to emulate my target with a run/prog switch.And therefore had
no need to remove the chip <point being ESD unlikely. :(
 I do not really know how many times I programmed it. I use a batch file
to call the programmer but failed to add a counter sorry maybe <=200
times.  Tony M.