Thanks to All who replied.

I may go down the software route, I don't know if anyone on this list lives
in England, but as far as I know the only place I can get pics is from a
firm called Maplin, who seem to have stopped stocking all the pics that they
had said had built in serial I/O.

I will be seeing what pics I can get and what programmers are easy to build.

Thank you again for your time.

Ian.


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