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I kept a few of those chips to show my kids. They're really works of art.

The PIC16C84 was one of the (if not the) first MCU chips to use EEPROM (precursor to flash memory), so I didn't need an eraser. It became a favorite of hobbyists. Programs were so simple, that assembly language wasn't really much of a barrier. I only started using C later, in fact, to teach myself C programming.

Before that, I made a board that combined an 8031 (8051 without built-in ROM) and a 28 pin EEPROM. My programmers hung on the parallel printer port of a MS-DOS machine, and were controlled by code I wrote in Turbo Pascal. Ah, the days. ;-)