> Hey Michael,
>
> I too am in the Houston area.  Specifically I live in Pecan Grove in
> Richmond.    I shop at EPO on Fondren quite often.  Maybe I'll see
> you there sometime.

Hello Jim,

I live in JV near 290 and the tollway.  Didn't you give a talk about PIC's
at a BVARC meeting?  I was going to go, got side-tracked and missed it.

Anyway, EPO is selling these tiny (55mm*55mm) 8052 based SBC's clipping
along at just over 22Mhz.  The board has a built on ICSP thanks to a PIC
chip.  It seems that the PIC has other tasks also (such as controlling the
contrast on a connected LCD module amongst other things).  It does not have
a boot-loader feature though, since there is no external RAM (kinda weird
for an 8052, huh?).  There is, however, a 4K EEPROM.  It is set up as a
development/learning tool as there are add-on boards that can stack onto the
cpu board.  They have a pre-wired LCD available and a keypad.

I got one because of the small size and partially on impulse cuz it was
right there in front of me. ;-D  I would prefer that it had external ram,
but it is not necessary right now.  At least this way it's kinda like
programming a PIC with only 256 bytes of ram available.  ;-)

hope to meet you sometime

michael

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