Though the magic green book didn’t seem to say much on how to get from true mode to inverted with its (1000000 / baud) – 20 equation, like how to get the extra bits in there? Anyway, the 8N0 thing is really what bothers me, does it even need a stop bit? If it does I do know that each bit is supposed to be 1.92mS wide but don’t really know what I’d do there, I figure it would have to be something external to the PIC or at least the HSERIN command. I realized that shiftin’s clock pin is an output, and I’d need it to be a clock in to be useful. It looks like a USART will work with Slave mode as long as it will let me do the odd baud and I can figure out a way around no stop bit..