I've been reading and studying the links that have been given to me by
many listmembers (thanks, all!), and now I have more questions!

* The 16F84 has been recommended to me. Are there any other PIC micros out
there with many more GPIO pins, maybe in a DIP 40 package? The 16F84 I
could use, but I'd have to add multiplexing and latching circuitry and
it'd be nice to avoid that.

* I've seen quite a few programmers. Anyone have any experiences they'd
like to share as far as which is fairly inexpensive and works well? I'm
not interested in building my own - I'd rather just buy one.

* Is there a particular assembler that people generally like to use with
the PIC micros?

Thanks in advance!

-->Neil

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Neil Bradley            There'd be no more N'Sync if everyone had guns.
Synthcom Systems, Inc.
ICQ #29402898

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