Brendan, > You mentioned in that immense email in several places that you didn't > think that a pre-programmed IC was practical. I think it is. You > said that the costs would be prohibitive eventhough I believe it was > only a week or so ago that someone mentioned that digikey would do > PICs for $0.50 each. That's not bad. No worries there, if you ask > me. This is NOT, and never was an issue. We program inhouse. Sean -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.