> florian and dieter, you have both mentioned pics in this thread, and
> i'm sort of starting to check out now what they are, how they are
> programmed etc. if either of you have any tips for a beginner -
> products, shops, places to look or whatever - i'd be most grateful. At
> the moment i'm browsing through the conrad catalogue, which assumes i
> already know what i'm looking for. which of course i don't :)
>
> cheers,
>
> stu

I'm not the PIC specialist. I ask you to contact Christian Assall
( software@... ) off list. He knows all these details about PIC tools
(literature, assemblers, compilers, development boards/systems hard/software
emulators and so on).

Best wishes
Dieter Doepfer