At 05:09 PM 11/14/2014, you wrote:
>At 02:12 PM 11/14/2014, David C Brown wrote:
>
> >Whist I am the leading exponent of the "if  the job hasn't changed why
> >change the tools" paradigm I still worry about future availabiity
>
>I stand to be corrected here, but as far as I know, Microchip has not
>yet obsoleted *any* PIC parts.  You can still order the original PIC
>16C54 series and, from what I can tell, every PIC part that has ever
>been available since then.  The older parts are expensive but they
>are still available.
>
>I was told at the Masters conference I attended that Microchip plans
>to never make any of their parts obsolete.  They will always be available.
>
>dwayne


They discontinued all the UV-erasable versions of the PIC17 series, but
I think all the OTP parts are still available. Justifiable homicide,=20
I suppose,
the demand would have been close to zero and those windowed packages=20
are probably
hard to come by.

Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany=20

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