Hey Ski...No never, dont think i'll be leaving PBP any time soon although I have been cheating a little with Mikroe Basic!

I think your referring to a copy of PBP I sold a while back I bought 2 at the time because the company I bought it off in Italy were selling them for around €100 each for the Pro version think it was a sale (without vat it was even less :-P).

As for the chip, its a real MAX232CPE, allcircuits I was looking at used the MAX232 chip... anyway I was going to try again thisevening but I'm just too knackered, i'll give it a bash tomorrow and see how it all goes...

All the Best

Tony