Martin McCormick wrote:
> I posted this once a few minutes ago and forgot the PIC
> tag.  Sorry.
>
> 	I was at a ham fest flea market event yesterday and a guy
> selling parts who didn't have anything in particular to gain from
> stating this said that all the PIC 16F's were all going away and
> all that would be left were surface mount devices.  He said,
> "It's on their web site,"
>
> 	I looked briefly at the Microchip web site today and
> didn't see anything right off but I also didn't dig very deeply either.
>
> 	If any PIC's are going away, does anybody know which
> ones?  Is the DIP package going extinct soon?  This will be a
> major pain for those of us who like to breadboard wire-wrap
> projects.
>
> Martin McCormick WB5AGZ  Stillwater, OK 
> Systems Engineer
> OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group
>   
That's a wives' tale. Too many applications need DIP packages.

--Bob
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