Erik, your design is pure genius! I have the whole circuit packed
inside of a DB-25 Hood with a 18 pin socket on the flat outside of the
casing.

Can anyone help me with this troubleshoot?

The programmer would only work when I had a logic probe drawing power from
ground and pin 14. Is this an added capacitance/resistance or both?
A solution that worked turned out to be placing a .1uF cap between ground
and MCLR????<-don't know what that has to do with the logic probe, but
it worked.

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