23 Apr
2012
23 Apr
'12
11:10 a.m.
At less than USD$1.00 for a PIC, it's hard to
rationalize on a faint
possibility. It works.
And that sums up what I hate about most modern stuff...
If you add the '38, OK, you multiply the overall cost by 2 or 3 times.
But you get a deivce that when it gets zapped, can be repaired by finding
a '38 in the junk box,or in the local electroncis shop and about 5
minutes of soldering. As opposed to having to find a PIC (which the local
electronics shope probably doesn't stcok), then having to get the ROM
image from somewhere, and having to program it.
Paying extra at the start for standard I/O buffers is well worth it to me.
-tony