I have a bizarre sense of humour, sorry if I offended, I thought you were trying to be funny. My apologies! I had envisioned a 6502 praying for death in a EPROM burner, which if it wasn't real expensive would be kinda funny to me. The fact you can write code for the 6502 says your knowledge of this CPU trumps mine, and I am therefore humbled. So now I feel kinda dumb. HE-HE but I still think it is a funny prospect. = )