At 10:10 AM 8/6/01 -0400, you wrote:
>Not to be disloyal to PICs, but there are audio recording IC for just
>such jobs as this.  I don't know part numbers but I know Radio Shack
>used to sell them.  They store audio as analog voltages in EEPROM-like
>cells.  There is no processor or A/D D/A needed.

www.isd.com , now part of Winbond (a supplier of nice 8051 flash variants
amoung many other things)

Quality of these things is appropriate for a toy. ;-)

Best regards,

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