On Mon, 16 Dec 1996, John Piccirillo wrote:

>     I downloaded the data sheets for the PIC 12C5XX.  Can the PICSTART 16B1
>  could be used to program this chip?  Section 9.5 of the data sheet (p. 49)
>  mentions the PICSTART Plus.  Is this the low end?  I already have a 16B1
>  programmer.
>
> John-

Hi,

Today, Microchip had their annual meeting here in Israel. I have asked
Hose, the europian marketing manager about microchip's policy for old
parts, especially regarding one of the questions that came up here on the
piclist about not being able to buy 16C74 window version. He talked about
it and tryed to make it very nice to the us the users, that microchip is
being progressing with time but keep the old devices but the bottom line
is that those devices are discontinued, they supply a direct replacement
with only minor changes.

The same apply to supporting the old Picstart 16B & C. it's firmware will
not be updated to support new devices. Instead we need to buy the Picstart
Plus. I also am stuck with both Picstart 16B & Picstart 16C and now need
to buy new programmer.

I think that Microchip should reconsider this policy and try to help those
how spent mony on development tools.

Chaipi

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