So would basic stamps be more useful to people who don't know how to program
in the assembly or are the just more convient cause they have the on board
power regulator and what not?  what is STI-64.  Some roll you own PIC Code?

Darren King


----- Original Message -----
From: John Mullan <jmullan@CGOCABLE.NET>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, November 04, 1999 7:47 PM
Subject: Re: BASIC STAMPS?


> Well Don this sounds promising.  I may get around to trying it.  However,
> at the moment I have a 4 dozen 16C84 chips that I would like to put to
good
> use and was hoping for source that works in it (utilizing the serial
EEPROM
> of course).
>
> I'll keep my eyes open for the updated STI-64 though.
>
> Reguards,
>
> John Mullan
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:   Don McKenzie [SMTP:don@DONTRONICS.COM]
> Sent:   Thursday, November 04, 1999 10:09 PM
> To:     PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject:        Re: BASIC STAMPS?
>
> John Mullan wrote:
> >
> > I like the idea of rolling my own "basic stamp". I've been meaning to
> give
> > STI-64 a try.  But I would like to see it use external SEEPROM.
> >
> > Has anyone modified the code to do this yet??
>
> It will be done some time in the future along with a few other
> enhancements, however in the meantime perhaps you would like to look at:
> http://www.dontronics.com/tiny51.html
> as an alternative.
>
> Again this is a future product, but this one I would imagine will be
> available Jan-00 or before. Should that be "2000". I guess I better
> start using four digits before my keyboard falls out of the sky, or I
> fall off my rocking chair. :-)
>
> Don McKenzie  mailto:don@dontronics.com http://www.dontronics.com
>
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