Re: 555; was: Re: Who is your favourite electronics guru?


John Fields wrote:
On Sun, 13 Aug 2006 16:01:38 -0700, Don Lancaster <don@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:


The 555 always was and always will be a total piece of ***.

The baby PIC's blow it completely away on all counts.

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*** you Lancaster. Since when don't you _not_ have to climb that
learning curve in order to code and program the miserable little
thing?

As opposed to working out where you have to put the "magic diode" to
get the 555 to do what you want when the input and output polarity
don't suit your application?

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Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

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