At 05:01 PM 1/13/97 -0800, you wrote:

>    All the PIC emulators of which I'm aware use Microchip's bondout
>    emulator chips, which don't work real well below 5 volts.
                                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                Sounds like official Microchip terminology

>
>> Is there a market for an emulator signal level translator?
>
>    I can't speak for the whole marketplace, but if it were priced
>    right and let me easily configure which pins were translated
>    (and in which directions), I'd buy one.

I'd be cautious, most people still use DIP packages.  3v might
be a pretty small user base.