> Around 1993, when I was possibly one of the very few people that knew
> what a PIC micro was in Australia, the local Victorian Police Forensic
Hmmmmmmmmm
> dept. contacted me and showed me a portion of a home etched
> PCB and what
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> The interesting part was that it had been used as a timing device in a
> police station bombing. Now why in the world would anyone use a 54 for
> something that you could easily achieve with a simple timer, or 555
> circuit?
> Why etch a board? It had to be someone that knew assembly code I would

Yes why ?

> Perhaps it was produced by someone reading this very message!!!!!
> Hmmm......
>
> Don McKenzie  mailto:don@dontronics.com http://www.dontronics.com
> Don's Download Dungeon:   http://www.dontronics.com/download.html
> Don's Bomb Section:       http://www.dontronics.com/bomb.html
Hint    ^^^^

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Regards
Benjamin Petersen