> Yep, Roman got me to thinking, this application don't need no stinkin' PIC
> ;-)
>
> Just tie a bunch of TPIC6B595 serial power shift registers directly to the
> parallel port.
>
> One chain of shift registers on each data pin.
>
> Use the other parallel port pins to clock in the data and strobe the shift
> regs load input.
>
> Done!
>
> Bob Ammerman

Hmmm, maybe. Might be too much PC software overhead, but I'll
think about that one some more though. Thanks.

You said TPIC6B595 and I said TPIC6A595 - does that mean you
have some experience with these things or was it just a typo?

Brent Brown
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