You may want to try Fry's Electronics
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Bill

At 10:52 AM 4/10/00 -0700, you wrote:
>I have a PIC16F877 which just got fried and I've ported my application back
>to my PIC16F84, but I would prefer to get another PIC16F877 today or
>tomorrow because I am close to the very limit of the 'F84 1K internal
>program memory limit.
>
>I'm in the Sunnyvale/San Jose, CA area days and San Francisco evenings.
>
>The application must be complete for an art show opening on 13 April in San
>Francisco.
>
>Can anyone let me know where I can zoom by with my car and pick one up in
>this area?  Price is not so critical.
>
>cellphone:  (415) 254-4545
>office:     (650) 584-5591
>
>Help is greatly appreciated!
>Thanks in advance,
>-chris
>
>P.S.
>We are creating a large-scale art installation using 2 x Polaroid 6500
>ultrasonic sensors and 60 DC electric motors to control this interactive
>art work.  I created a system which expanded the I/O of the PIC16F84 to 120
>inputs and 120 outputs using a 4-wire serial link via 8-conductor LAN
>cables (differential pairs using AM26LS31 and AM26LS32A).  It's very cool
>(if it works).  The PIC talks to a Macintosh via s/w UART (or '877 h/w
>USART).  The Macintosh is running MAX MIDI software from IRCAM to control
>this whole thing.
>
>We are still having problems with the 6500 sonars.  We have tried many
>things to get them to detect up to the advertised 35 feet.  All tries have
>seen a distance limit of 19 feet.  Any hints are welcome.
>
>Contact me if you'd be interested to see this or help me get my last bugs
>sorted out!
>