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From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf Of
M. Adam Davis
Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 4:22 PM
To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
Subject: Re: [PIC] Old stock of PICs

I remember UV erasers being one of the bigger purchases for getting
into microcontrollers - as a high school student I couldn't justify
$100 for it when I could get logic chips for cheap.  The 16C84 took
off big time because you could program and erase it without a UV
eraser, didn't require any external support parts (except crystal),
and could be programmed with a cheap programmer.

-Adam

I built mine!  UV (mercury) lamps are cheap, and a ballast is too.
(Then I built a PIC based timer for it!)

Tom

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