At 01:24 AM 12/11/01 +1100, Roman wrote: >Why use a chip? I have one circuit running >16 independent dip switches, a 7 seg. display >and 2 input/output pins on a 16F84 which only >has 13 IO pins, no other chips needed. Exactly >how many things do you need to connect?? >-Roman Can you post a generalized schematic of this? I know tricks can be done but it seems aggravating to use them, but maybe you have something else going here. Jeff -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.