Author: Stephen PelcStephen Pelc Date: Jun 24, 2007 05:00
On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 16:49:28 -1000, Elizabeth D Rather
forth.com> wrote:
>Interesting. We've done some commercial work on vending machines (for a
>company in Tennessee), including an MDB protocol implementation and
>support for payment by cash or smart cards. 8051's are the most common
>part used for this.
...
>Actually, I'd use a different MCU ;-)
MPE did a vending machine project as a rescue job for a client.
The previous consultancy failed in 2.5 years. MPE delivered a
much more comprehensive embedded system and ... and ... in
under nine months.
The previous consultancy was using PICs.
>> Small, reliable, quickly developed projects are the goal.
>
>And a good goal, too, but I really don't see getting a really good
>development environment on such a limited chip.
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