Sure thing. I have one of those beasties. Before I could afford a good oscilloscope it seemed like a nice way to bench-test some digital (DTL & TTL) circuits. Modified mine with connector for the cable attachment to the box so I could plug in different IC clips for different sized components. Also could use it as a pretty dumb "logic analyzer" with a cable that had clips or probes on each pin. It never worked very well for dynamic circuits (not surprising) but I did get a lot of use from it while breadboarding. Gary At 03:18 PM 3/10/98 -0500, you wrote: >> I found an interesting gadget at a hamfest last weekend. It's a

>> made by SwTPc. It's a gold colored metal box about 6 x 5 x 4 inches. It >> has the outline of an IC on it and 16 lights around the outline to >> represent each IC pin. There's a cable coming out of the box with a 16

>> chip clip on the other end. It's AC powered and looks like it uses >> incandescent bulbs instead of LEDs. I've never heard of one before but it >> looks like a prehistoric IC pin status display. Anyone here ever use