ric wrote:The oldest post of mine that Google can find on the Microchip forum is at
https://www.microchip.com/forums/FindPost/16867which is dated "March 13, 2002". Not bad for someone who supposedly joined in 11/8/2003 !
In reality, I'd been posting on the predecessor of that forum software for a while before that.
One of the few things the "new" Microchip forum software does better is searching old posts.
According to it, my oldest post there was a week earlier, on March 6, 2002. It does look a bit like a first post.
https://forum.microchip.com/s/topic/a5C ... AK/t196186I see the first answer came from Mario. He was a fascinating character, and it was a shame he suddenly disappeared.
Something happened to his account, so it's now lumped in with a whole lot of deleted accounts as "Guest1" so it's impossible to just find his posts.