Hehe... been there, done that, myself.
Pulling the wrong MCU from the shelf sucks,
thats why I toss or erase all out-of-date mcu's now.

I'll have a look at the port-write-bytes again because
I can vaguely remember that being a bug I had for a while.
I thought I had fixed it but I may be wrong...
I dont remember if I tested it with an MCU, only with hyperterminal.

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