I'd suggest using rats instead of mice.  They can handle more current and
you can tweak the delay constants by slightly shortening their very long
tails.

Also, rats will assimulate anything efficiently, so you should get  a fairly
uniform emulation no matter what you feed them.

Just some helpful hints.....


Craig

-----Original Message-----
From: Karsten Krause <PSYPHY@T-ONLINE.DE>
To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Friday, June 12, 1998 4:34 AM
Subject: 16f84 bio-emulator


>
>Hi all,
>I just started work on a PIC 16F84 emulator using 8 lab mice to simulate
>the latches. Does anybody know about typical delay constants for one
>inch of the central tail nerve ? Any suggestions for a diet that reduces
>this time ? Where should I connect pin 5 of the 555s ?
>
>Cheers,
>Karsten
>