Tony Nixon wrote:

> I attended the Microchip seminar yesterday.  Overall, it was quite a
> good day. Even got a 16F877 to play with.

  It was a bit far for me.  When are they having one in Sydney?

  If you could add code to a protected chip, you could write in a "read"
routine to send it all back *out* again via the UART.  I think that's
the reason.
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  Cheers,
        Paul B.