On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 20:20 -0500, John Nall wrote:
> Well, that is two of you (you and Olin) who are kind of down on the 
> project.  :-(  Since I have a lot of respect for the opinions of you 
> two, then most likely you are right and I am wasting my time.  But I'm 
> going to give it a try, anyway.  It will not cost me any money (I have 
> all the ingredients already) and I have lots of time.  And, of course, 
> if I succeed, then fame and fortune will be assured!  (Well, perhaps 
> not, but my grandson may possibly be impressed, anyway).
> 
> I figure that I can plan it (sketching out pin-to-pin) in an hour, and 
> wire it up in a couple of hours.  So three hours out of my lifetime 
> (which is admittedly getting shorter each day) is no big deal.

FWIW I've done something similar (although it was mapping the pins of an
EPROM from TSSOP to DIP, the pinouts were different, and there were
quite a few wires, 32 I think). It took a while, but it worked fine for
at least a few years.

This is obviously not something I'd ever consider for anything beyond
the prototype stage, but for that stage there's nothing wrong with it.

For the record, the most I've done is hand wire two 100pin connectors to
each other to match differing pinouts. It wasn't an IC, but it sure was
alot of work! :) 

TTYL

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