Impressive accomplishments Ray. Did you also design the "Wheel"
for Thog Industries some time around 12,000 BC  ;-)

A.


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---- On Thu, 6 Jul 2006, Ray Newman (list@microdesigns.biz)
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> My 1st PIC was just after GI MCU turned into Microchip 1989
> I won some awards at CES  (but never found out what they were)
 for my home automation controls
> I designed for MKO Ambiance in 1990. PIC16C54/56 &57
> =

> My 1st Microprocessor was CDP1802 back in 1972 controlling
1200HP motors.
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> My 1st MCU was 8039 in 1984 for controlling a product line o
chain lift controls.
> =

> If anybody is interested:
> http://www.microdesigns.biz/past_designs.html
> some of the major events in my life of designing.
> =

> I tried Zilog & Freescale but I always come back to Microchip.
> =

> I still have (somewhere) an issue of Popular Electronics from
1957.
> (missing front/back covers)
> =

> So you can guess I am old.............................
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> Ray
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> On Thu, 06 Jul 2006 12:01:35 -0400, Walter Banks wrote:
> > My first use of a PIC was an NMOS 1654 in a bathroom scales
in the
> > 80's. MPC was originally written in 1993
> >
> > w..
> >
> >
> > Harold Hallikainen wrote:
> >
> >>> Hi all,
> >>>
> >>> I've been wondering that where they are first used in
magazine
> >>> pages.
> >>>
> >>> So, i've found one:
> >>> Issue 25 of Circuit Cellar magazine year 1992
> >>> Silicon Update-Cheap Chips: Lean and Mean PIC Machines, by
Tom
> >>> Cantrell
> >>>
> >>> That is when i was 3rd year in my primary school. Still
playing
> >>> with numbers and trying to grasp fundamental grammer
basics :)
> >>> Also, i dont know anything about electronics, even dont
know
> >>> about "e" ...
> >>>
> >>> Just my curiosity, maybe there should be older articles
and ads
> >>> about them.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> G=F6khan SEVER
> >>>
> >> Not quite on the topic, but in the 1970s, the Cal Poly San
Luis
> >> Obispo Rose Float Committee used a PIC to animate an
elephant in
> >> their Rose Parade float.
> >>
> >> Harold
> >>
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