Feist wrote:
>
> Being a newbie to PIC's and microelectronics in general, i stumbled across
> this ml, and hope that someone might be able to point me in hte right
> direction for information / tutorials etc

Scott Edwards on-line version PIC Source book at
http://www.dontronics.com/see.html may help you

> I found out about pics whilst asking people how i might go about
> constructing a PC interface relay card
> This looks to be far more complicated than i originally thought, but if
> anyone has ever constructed something similar, i would greatly appreciate
> any information you could give me.

PC interface relay card?
No micro?

Have a look at:
http://www.dontronics.com/vicuni96.html
and
http://www.dontronics.com/dt205.html

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