> My understanding is that the PIC-START 16C is needed to program the '61.
> (Microchip will correct me if I'm wrong) At the embedded systems conference
> the sales engineer for Microchip said that microchips strategy was to have
> several "picstart" programmers, each capable of programming a "few" kinds.
> This would allow them to sell you a picstart for the type of products you
> were designing into your prototype, but would mitigate impact on PICMaster
> sales. (since for the cost of two or three PICstart kits you are almost
> into the cost of the PICmaster anyway.) I alluded to him how I thought this
> was an exceptionally short sighted strategy but I don't expect corporate
> types to understand the notion of "cheap tools expands the user base
> which lifts volumes and revenues" theory.
>
> On the otherhand there is Parallax which announced that their programmer
> will program 16C64s with their 40 pin adapter and I suspect they will
> make it able to program '61s. So whereas there used to be a slight
> advantage to the PICStart 16B, (with its free samples and nicer software)
> That advantage is being lost since it now costs twice as much to program
> the same devices that the Parallax programmer will program.
>
> --Chuck

Hmmm, thanks Chuck...

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