> I would like to know what others have to say on the subject.

Not from first hand, but I have often heard of problems with the internal
eeprom (on 16x84's) when no brown-out protection was used. The newer flash
pics have build-in brown-out detection, but I don't know whether this
provides adequate protection against random overwrites.

Wouter van Ooijen

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