On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Douglas Wood wrote:

> 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!!

Which reminds me (who said this originally?):

"Real engineers know their PICs everyone else picks their nose!"

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