Guys,

That was meant as a joke. This same engineer built a circuit to operate a
"coin spitter" using a switch and a flip-flop. (A coin spitter is a device
used in vending machines to return change.)

After he built this circuit and had it running, he came over to my desk.
After he explained the circuit, he commented that our rather "PIC-gungho"
engineering manager would probably say that he would have used a PIC. We
both laughed -- haha.

The very next morning this manager came in and asked Joe (the engineer) what
he was working on. Joe explained about the coin spitter circuit, and, as God
is my witness, the manager said, "I think I would have used a PIC!" This was
just too funny. I made a fake personalized Kansas license plate for the
manager that read "IDPICIT". I figured that my (extensive) use of 12C PICs
would in some perverted way appeal to our manager!!

Douglas Wood
Software Engineer

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU]On Behalf Of Bob Ammerman
Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2000 7:58 PM
To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: [PIC]: MultiPICs = PushMePullYou <-- Cudos


Well, As an idea goes, this one was certainly a whopper....

But the contest idea I proposed really does have to be limited to
implemented systems. Otherwise somebody would tell us that had designed
millions of PICs into the Stars Wars Defense Shield or some such thing.

Bob Ammerman
RAm Systems
(contract development of high performance, high function, low-level
software)

----- Original Message -----
From: Dan Michaels <oricom@USWEST.NET>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2000 8:02 PM
Subject: Re: [PIC]: MultiPICs = PushMePullYou <-- Cudos


> Bob Ammerman wrote:
> >Sorry, ideas don't count, only actual implementations.
> >
>
> Hey, Doug, the rest of the world is to interested in new ideas.
> Bob is probably funning here [one can only hope].
>
> cheers,
> - dan michaels
> ==============
>
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: Douglas Wood <douglas_wood@ARIUSA.COM>
> >To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
> >Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 5:13 PM
> >Subject: Re: [PIC]: MultiPICs = PushMePullYou <-- Cudos
> >
> >
> >> Recently, where I work, we've had difficultly obtaining flash memory
> >chips.
> >> It seems that the world's supply of flash is going into Compact Flash
> >> modules. Anyway, I suggested to the engineer looking for the flash that
he
> >> build boards with (large) arrays of 12CE518s on them (each PIC has 16
> >bytes
> >> of EEPROM). Our flash size needs are in the MBs. I think this idea
> >qualifies
> >> for the last four categories, doesn't it?  ;-)
> >>
> >> Douglas Wood
> >> Software Engineer
> >>

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