Olin argued for 18F many times and much better then=20
I ever could.=20

   Mike.

John Hansen wrote:
> I don't mean to be picky, but I don't think this is very helpful to
the
> poor fellow who is just trying to get started.  You can still build
(or
> buy) a simple programmer for the chips that he's acquired for a very
small
> amount of money.  Most of those chips are also supported by the free
> version of HiTech's C compiler.   You can't yet say this about the 18
> series chips.  While I'm very impressed with the capabilities of the
18
> series, I think there is still a lot to be said for getting started
with
> the 628 and/or 877.
>=20
> John Hansen
>=20
> At 12:15 AM 1/19/03 +0300, you wrote:
> >Was [OT]: ...
> >---------------------
> >
> >Better throw them out and buy PIC18F442.
> >
> >    Mike.
> >
> >Aaron Moore wrote:
> >...
> > > I'm a complete newbie so I hope I can learn quick.
> > >
> > > I ordered 5 different chips for now so that I can really have some
> > > flexibility.
> > >
> > > I got myself the following chips:
> > > PIC16F84-04/P
> > > PIC16F84A-20I/P
> > > PIC16F874A-I/P
> > > PIC16F877A-I/P
> > > PIC16F628-20I/P

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