Re: [PIC]: Happy New PICList Year

I started with PIC's around 1990 when Microchip was first created by some of the employees of General Instruments.  There were 3 parts offered if I remember correctly.  Those were the 16C54, 16C55, and the 16C57.  I built a programmer that plugged into the parallel printer port of the computer. I too programmed in assembler because it was free, and my first real project was a diffusion furnace controller when I worked at Texas Instruments.
It took a few days of programming, simulating, revising, and finally testing on an actual furnace.  It worked flawlessly.  But was denied by management at too cheap to be reliable.
I have done several projects over the years.  I've designed a reverse osmosis machine controller for a guy in Georgia to use on his boat to convert saltwater to portable water, a circulatory system simulation controller for a cancer researcher in Houston, a water softener controller for another man in Houston, and various other projects for myself and friends.  I enjoy using PICs, and for the projects I build and program, they work very well.
I've been working with them for decades now and have acquired a vast library of PIC related books, various pieces of programming, development, and testing hardware, and a rather extensive library of subroutines and other software that I use periodically.

Wishing everyone seeing this a Happy New Year 2026.

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Subject: Re: [PIC]: Happy New PICList Year

That makes more than one of us, especially when it is one of Russells 'deep
dives' that can use up a lot of reading time. I started reading it in
either 1999 or 2000.

I can also claim to be the person that caused Olin Lathrop to publish his
development environment in full. Originally he had published snippets to
the Piclist (and possibly elsewhere), but when I tried to use the examples
he had posted it was obvious there were significant chunks missing When I
came back with queries he put the whole lot up for download on his business
website. I see it is still getting updated, although now on Github.
https://github.com/OlinLathrop?tab=overview&from=2025-12-01&to=2025-12-31

I have a whole heap of "useful" documents and links squirrelled away from
items posted to the PIClist, and would like to thank all those who have
contributed, moderated, and generally kept the list on track and useful.
Unfortunately I can see the PIClist slowly dying as old hands retire and
young blood entering the embedded world go with templates and high level
languages, not understanding the underlying hardware.


On Thu, 1 Jan 2026 at 12:49, K S <[email protected]> wrote:

> I've been predominantly a lurker here for somewhere between 25-30 years now
> and still get a little dopamine hit when I see a piclist email come
> through.
>
> Happy New Year all.
> Kris
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