On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 07:10:15PM +0100, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
> > > (3. And use a "better" PIC...)
> >
> > Haha yes, I just happen have 2 of these lying around. (I have read Byron
> > Jeff's Why the PIC 16F84 is obsolete page)  This is my first PIC project.
>
> I see. I'm not saying that the 16F84 will *not* work for this task. I'm
> just trying to say that newer PICs are generaly far easier to use (program).
> Just to mention one thing, the 16F84 has just one single timer, most
> other "standard" PICs have 3-4 timers.

I will eventually like to implement a chess clock type feature on this PIC
so I suppose I will need another timer.  I will look in to other 16F chips

Thanks
-v

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