A while ago I got this quote: (never used, but I was curious) Thank you for your mail. "...The price for breaking 68HC705 is USD3000, and AT89C2051 USD2000, delivery within 7 days. Here is the process, first you pay the 30% of the payment and send us one piece of the locked ic and 2pcs of unlocked ics, after breaking the chips, we will put the extract contents into the ics and locked them, then we send you the chips for confirmation, finally, you send us the balance fund after confirmation, we send you the contents..." And: "..All of the PIC16FXXX is within our capacity..." For more information: www.break-ic.com And also: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sps32/mcu_lock.html Regards Mauricio Jancic Janso Desarrollos www.janso.com.ar info@janso.com.ar (54) 11-4542-3519 -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist