PICMANJIM SCORES! jim@jpes.com says:

 1. U4 is a High Voltage EL Driver IC from SuperTex (Now owned by Microchip=
)
> for the LCD Backlight.
>  2. U2 (Flash memory) is a 2Mb memory arranged as 262,144 bytes.
>  3. It appears that J1 is an ICSP connector.
>     A quick run through with the meter indicates that the pinout of the
> connector is ...
>     Pin 1 is VDD (5V), Pin 2 is Clock, Pin 3 is Data, Pin 4 is Reset,
> and Pin 5 is Ground.
>  I have verified that the PIC can indeed be erased and programmed via a
> PICKit3
>  It will take a little more experimenting to see if I can get the LCD to =
work.
> I figure maybe a good starting point would be to get the LCD to display
> the time from the RTC onboard.
>  If I can accomplish that, the rest should be a cinch.


Sadly, things are getting busy at work for Jim, so we are hoping others can
pickup from there and carry on. Please do try!

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