I use a Machine Pin socket that always stays on the PIC to protect it's
pins. It works great and will plug into another machine pin socket or ziff.
Ben,
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On Tue, 25 Jun 1996, Don McKenzie wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Jun 1996, David S. Ebsen wrote:
> > right off with MPASM ( Microchip Website). Second, spend the extra money
and
> > get the ZIF socket, my first 16c84 now has 4 or 5 home made pins on it.
> > Third, I recomend you start with the 16c84/10, it's better if you want to
do
{Quote hidden}> > any serial communication or just need a little more speed.
> > Good
> > Luck, Dave
>
> Instead of ZIF to protect your 84 for development, you could use a
> machine pin socket attached to 84 to protect it.
>
> Most 4 Mhz version 84's will run at 8Mhz and possibly 16Mz.
>
> Checkout:
>
http://www.labyrinth.net.au/~donmck/hints.html
> for some general hardware hints like these.
> Don...
>
> Don McKenzie
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