On Saturday, Jan 3, 2004, at 06:49 US/Pacific, Olin Lathrop wrote:
> Is is really worth all that to save a 50 cent crystal?
>
It's more often useful to save two pins.  I've noticed that a lot
of things I contemplate will fit in an 18 pin pic, but NOT one of
the old ones with only 13 IOs.  And of course the 8-pin PICS are a
LOT more useful with 6 I/Os (as atmel found out the hard way...)

> Or use a 30 cent resonator with built-in capacitors. A good compromise
> for many situations (0.5% accuracy).

Where do i get these cheap resonators?  I didn't get any responses
to my last flame to the effect that cheap crystals were far more
common than cheap resonators.  (again, it's an ease-of-use thing.
I want built-in caps! (and how come no one seems to make cystal
modules with built-in caps, anyway?)

BillW

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