On Mon, 17 Jun 1996, David Tait wrote:

> Mike Thompson wrote:
> >    I've tried to make the David Tait programmer and was not able to
> > program my device.
>
> Oh dear!  If you have already built it (and not already thrown it in
> the bin) you might like to grab my FAQ and some better software from
> here:
> ftp://ftp.mcc.ac.uk/pub/micro-controllers/PIC
> or via my WWW page:
> http://www.man.ac.uk/~mbhstdj/piclinks.html
> I guess Ken means the Henk Schaer design.  This is widely available
> and is mentioned in the PIC FAQ; my WWW page has a link to the PIC FAQ
> pages and a pointer to one source of the Schaer programmer info.
> Henk's schematic incorrectly labels one of the buffers - pins 12 and
> 13 should be swapped; of course, just in case the version you pick up

I also wonder David if it wasn't my circuit that was given with pin 13
connected to ground on the printer port DB-25 connector instead of pin 25.

I updated all of my gif files yesterday! so new on-screen images and
download-able circuits and overlays are available from my home page.

Don...

Don McKenzie donmck@labyrinth.net.au
DonTronics Tullamarine, Australia
http://www.labyrinth.net.au/~donmck

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