Stop. Please stop. My sides hurt from laughing. That is incredibly funny -
and oh so sad - all at the same time. I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

We have a project here that runs on a single board PC. The guy responsible
for the code "lost" it all about five years ago. No source, no printouts,
all we have is the object code on a floppy. Fast forward to about a year
ago - Can't get the screwy Sipex A/D chip that we use in that product. I
still remember sitting in my bosses office saying "No problem, we just
change to an available A/D chip and modify the source code to accomodate the
new A/D chip". At this point my boss has this sheepishly silly sort of
"how-do-I-tell-him" look on his face.  Up until this time I had no
involvement in this particular product and didn't know that the source was
lost. Re-writing the original source was not an option. Ended up programming
a PIC chip to emulate the Sipex A/D so that we could use the existing object
code. Works - but not very elegant.

-- Mark

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Denny Esterline
>
> That would at least be logicaly defendable, but no. Short on codespace on
> the eeprom, delete the comments in the source code. I wish I was kidding.
>



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