Hello all:

This is my first posting to the group after reading it daily for the
last couple of months. I hope some of you will give me a hand with
what may seem to be a silly request.

I've just built a 16C84 programmer and would like to test it but
don't have any code to try it with. Would someone please do the
incredible favour of writing a little program (using MPASM) that will
set a couple of port bits (so I can monitor LEDs), declare a couple
of variables, and read in a byte from a group of switches? Once I see
how this is done, I can figure out the rest from there and, more
importantly, verify the operation of the programmer (instead of
wondering if the program itself is incorrect).

I'm quite well versed and experienced with the 8031/51
microcontroller as well as the Motorola 6802 family but am
(obviously) just starting out with the PIC line. It seems remarkably
easy to put together a simple development system for the 16C84 in
comparison to the above mentioned processors so I can see my
department using the PICs for quite a few of our new projects.

Thanks for any help you can provide.

Mike Thompson