On interfaces, paper tape readers/punches,

[Tony Duell]

>    Well yeah...anyone who would replace a single 74LS00 with a  
> microcontroller would certainly earn a "moron" sticker on the forehead.

Hang on a sec...

Back in the 'decoding FSK cassette data' theard, somebody suggested 'a 
couple of tone dectors and a microcontroller' I asusme the 'tone 
detectors' are soemthing like an NE567. In whci case the logic to combine 
them into a itstream is only a few logic gates.

And I still feel that the bast way to impleemtn that logic is not a 
microcontroller.

-tony