On Apr 4, 2006, at 7:27 PM, Marcel Duchamp wrote:

>> so you're looking at someone dedicating time
>> to programming parts.
>
> I'd be very surprised if humans were doing this.  I'll bet a dime to a
> doughnut that tubes of chips are stuck in a programmer and run
> automatically.  Or reels of chips...

At microchip, that's a certainty.  If you're talking the small
businesses selling maybe thousands of units per year that the new
programming service is aimed at, it's equally certain that they
have NOT bought the very expensive automated-feed device programmer.

BillW
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