If you'd like a 16F628 I have an extra I'd be happy to
give you.  If you want it, send a mailing address to
mdredmond at charter.net.

-matt redmond
Dallas, Texas


On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 10:05:13 -0600
  Martin McCormick <martin@DC.CIS.OKSTATE.EDU> wrote:
>         I posted this message an hour or so ago and
>accidentally left
>off the tag.  Apologies to those who will read both
>postings.
>
>         I have been on this list for 7 years and have
>almost gotten
>started programming PIC's a couple of times.  As a
>computer user who
>happens to be blind, I started looking at PIC's just
>about the time
>all the development software went from DOS to Windows so
>I wasn't sure
>exactly what I was going to do to make it all work best.
>
>         I use UNIX in my job and I got in to Linux at
>around that
>time.  I had bought a couple of PIC programmers and some
>PIC's, but
>the development software, programmer drivers, and even
>some of the
>documentation presented one headache after another so I
>kept
>procrastinating which is something I plan to quit doing
>first thing
>tomorrow.
>
>         Now, I have a Linux system that appears to
>support at least
>one of the programmers I have well enough to program most
>of the
>PIC's on hand so now, I am just writing a program,
>getting ready to
>burn it in to a 16F84, possibly a 16f84A.  I'll have to
>get out the
>box and find out what I bought, then.
>
>         Now, for my PIC question.  Are any of the
>following so
>obsolete that, if I built something with them, I couldn't
>replace it
>with what's current without a total re-write of the
>program?
>
>16C54 12c509JW 16F84 16C71JW 16c64jw 17C42
>
>That is pretty much what I have on hand and I do have the
>UV eraser
>for the JW parts.  If memory serves me, the 16c64JW is a
>40-pin PIC
>that was a sample included in the early PICStartB or C
>series
>programmers around 1996.
>
>         By the way, the Linux tools solve all the
>interface problems I
>had before and it looks like things are about to rock.
>
>         I did read the web page
>
>http://www.finitesite.com/d3jsys/16F628.html
>
>so I know that the 16F84 is obsolete but it sounds like I
>can go
>ahead and use the few I have since their code will fit in
>to the
>16F628.
>
>         If things work out this time, I will get a
>PICStart Plus which
>is supported under Linux.
>
>Martin McCormick WB5AGZ  Stillwater, OK
>OSU Information Technology Division Network Operations
>Group
>
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