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You appear to have joined the htsoft forum on 17-oct-2003
https://web.archive.org/web/20161030134 ... ubbthreads
so maybe you were a slow starter.

Hmm, I don't remember which one I joined first. Probably Hi-Tech.

I never really did the posts thing, early on. But this thread did make me try and find the earliest source code that I had written for a PIC. 27 August 1994, for a 16C55.

ric wrote:The oldest post of mine that Google can find on the Microchip forum is at https://www.microchip.com/forums/FindPost/16867
which 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/t196186

I 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.