Howard Winter wrote:

>Bob,
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>On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 00:17:24 -0700, Bob Axtell wrote:
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>>My lot in life seems to be designing Law Enforcement products, i.e. 
>>video surveillance systems,
>>etc. Its somewhat sleazy, but somebody has to do it.
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>Well as long as we don't get caught by speed cameras designed by you, we'll still talk to you  :-)))
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I don't design those, although I HAVE found some flaws in other designs..

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>>For development, Microchip's ICD2 is excellent at about $150 USD, but I 
>>like an RS232 clone made
>>by  www.mcu.cz; I own 3 of them and they cost only about $55 USD.
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>As a matter of interest, why would you want 3 of the same programmer?  Surely they are quick enough that you 
>wouldn't need to overlap programming three chips at once, would you?
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I have a product in development that has 4 PICs running in a 2-pin 
clocked serial bus. I ran into problems deciding who did the evil  deed. 
Unless  you can
catch it, you can't fix it. I can see which guy sent the data, and I can 
see which guy hung the bus. The third one is being loaned to a contract 
programmer.

>I seem to have accumulated a whole lot of *different* programmers, which have different pros and cons, but one 
>day I'll build something useful instead (I'm sure building programmers is a displacement activity for me! :-)
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>Cheers,
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I have a box full of 'em. If I every have time to go fishing, I'll use 
them as boat anchors.

If I'd had the money I spent on those things, I could have afforded 
another marriage and divorce.


--Bob

>Howard Winter
>St.Albans, England
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