Of course not. It is an interesting experiment, if nothing else. The PICs
have an internal osc - why not use it if it will do what you want? If it
won't, I'll use an xtal - I have a bunch of them. I'd like to use the OSC
pins as I/O ports for this project, but it isn't necessary, since I can
multiplex a couple of other pins if I have to.

At 09:49 AM 1/3/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>Larry Bradley wrote:
> > If the freq doesn't
> > change by too much, I can get away with using the internal osc, as I
> > don't really need to be too close to midnight - I can reset the clock
> > manually every few days if necessary.
>
>Is is really worth all that to save a 50 cent crystal?
>
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