I used Mike Keitz's suggestion of checking out what's going on between
the port pins and the Vdd. Here are the results:

All pins have around 5 Meg Ohms between Port pin & Vdd

except RB0 - Vdd : where I get about 1.6K ohms.

So- I guess I blew the RB0 port.

Next Question:  Obviously with this blown port, I can no longer
program the chip in serial mode, - but is it possible to program
it in Parallel mode?


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