Re: [PIC]: Happy New PICList Year

Happy New Year from a mostly lurker since 1998!

Best regards,
Carlos Marcano.

On Thu, Jan 1, 2026 at 9:48 AM jim jpes.com <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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> 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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