On Mon, 17 May 1999 09:27:26 -0700, you wrote:

>What's the story on the availability of PIC16F87x parts?  First
>it was March, then April, well-- now it's May, and I'd like to
>start using this chip!
>
>I'm sure someone has talked to Microchip recently about this.
>What's the story?
The story I was told at the Microchip seminar last week is that there
were a few bugs in the pre-production silicon, and they considered
them serious enough to fix them for production devices, which should
be available about now.