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I'm a sometime PIC hobbyist and refugee from the Microchip marketing adventure game (or perhaps evil experiment?) being conducted at http://www.microchip.com/forums/.

I started my PIC journey in 2009 with a Sure Electronics PIC18F4520 Dem2PLUS/Low Pin Count Board and a Dangerous Prototypes dsPIC33FJ128GP204 web platform (http://dangerousprototypes.com/docs/Web_Platform). Since then, I've assembled a number of PCBs from through hole to pure SMD using various PICs. Nothing of any great moment was ever accomplished; it's more a purely educational pursuit for its own sake somewhat reminiscent of programming a 6502 in machine code back in the early 80s.

I've programmed the Commodore VIC-20 (6502 machine code, assembler, BASIC), PC-DOS (assembler, Zortech C), Windows (Delphi), OS X (C, Lazarus and Free Pascal), FreeBSD (C, Lazarus and Free Pascal, Bourne shell scripts), Solaris (C, Bourne shell scripts) and PICs (Microchip C compilers, MikroElektronika C and Pascal compilers, JALv2 compiler).

In a former life, I was a lawyer who worked for a legal publishing company for 20 years in various roles ranging from author to IT consultant. Until this month, I'd spent 13 years working for a charity as a developer automating the acquisition, conversion and provision of Australian law online for free access.

I'm now gainfully retired

Howdy neighbour

ric wrote:Howdy neighbour

Close... ex-Sydney, but now in the technologically advanced Riverina with FTTP NBN. Who'd have thought? Better still, the NSW Government paid me $12K in grants to move to the clean country air

Well you're closer to Melbourne than Sydney now.
I'm in one of the last suburbs in Melbourne to get FTTP installed before that was wound down.