John Ferrell wrote:
> > I bought the book and then the assembled board, complete. Considering the 
> time involved in building the device I felt it worth the price.
>   
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About two hours to build it.  www.microdesignsinc.com sells the 
completed board for $114 plus shipping (at least I presume that it is 
plus shipping, anyway).   So you save about half when you build it 
yourself.  
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> > The vendor that supplies the board 
> also has preprogrammed chips at a reasonable price.
>   
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Peatman has a little blurb on his website (www.picbook.com) that says if 
you buy the parts kit from Digikey (which includes an 18F452) then you 
can send it to him and he will program it for you at no charge.
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> > He also expressed surprise that an old 
> retired tech would use his course for recreation! 
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He figured we spend all our time playing golf, huh??  :-)
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> > I felt that it was a good value. I have not looked, but I would think the 
> book would be available from text book resellers by now.
>   
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I looked at the used books on Amazon.com this morning, and they are 
still running around $60. 
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