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From: Donald.Heller@jpl.nasa.gov (Don Heller)
Subject: Re: BASIC for STAMP clone
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In article <BILLW.94Sep13015023@glare.cisco.com> billw@glare.cisco.com (William ) writes:
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>From: billw@glare.cisco.com (William )
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>In-reply-to: Donald.Heller@jpl.nasa.gov's message of Mon, 12 Sep 1994 16:22:11


>Geez, don't you think parallax is entitled to a LITTLE money for coming
>up with this thing?  They don't charge very much for a stamp chip with
>the basic already burnt in...

>BillW

Geez, indeed.  I have no problem paying Parallax for chips.  My idea was
to burn the BASIC into a PIC 16C84 or some such PIC chip with additional
capability...sort of a SuperStamp.  Now that you mention it, I should probably
ask Parallax if they would sell other PICs with BASIC on board; maybe they
already thought of this, and have plans (or not).

BTW, kudos to Cisco for their new line of low-cost routers...it looks like
a lot of competition for SOHO business, which can only help us poor end-
users (and swamp the web!)

Thanks,
Don

Don Heller (Donald.W.Heller@jpl.nasa.gov)
           (heller@vraptor.jpl.nasa.gov)
           (73632.454@compuserve.com)

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