"W.E. van Bemmel" <bemspan@XS4ALL.NL> wrote:
> the problem of Y2k is not the coding in 2 digits, but the erroneous use of
> this information..  :-(
> No PICs can be of before, say, 1980 so we have another odd 80 years to go....

PICs have been made since the mid-70s; I'm not sure exactly when they were
introduced.  There were various NMOS parts in the 5x line, including the
PIC1652 and PIC1654; there might have been PMOS parts before that.

Cheers,
Eric