I was wondering if anyone had solved the following idea and could send me
some schematics, or point me in the right direction, to save me the trouble
of designing the whole lot....

I need to count the pulses coming from a pair of quadrature incremental
encoders. These pulses could be conditioned to be up/down. I need to send
the counts out to a PC RS232 line. The counts need to be independantly
resettable.

I am looking at doing it with a PIC16C84.

Many thanks

Phil