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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PIC_microcontroller https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PIC_microcontroller Incredibly common chips, less so today, but historically th
by com2kid 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PIC_microcontroller https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PIC_microcontroller
Incredibly common chips, less so today, but historically they were all over the place. Looking at Wikipedia, it seems the 14bit instruction set PIC had a whopping 128 bytes of memory.
For managing a bunch of toggle switches or dials with 8 positions, I imagine that was more than enough.