Ralf Rudolph <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU> wrote:

> Conrad Electronic, a german "home electronics" distributor, offers a
> Kit called "PICSTART-PLUS"
> ....
> The price is 399 DM (that's around us$ 250). My question is, has
> anybody heared of this system? Maybe someone uses it? Is it
> reliable, or in short: Should I buy it?
>
> I only need to program a PIC once in a while, so I am not willing
> to spend too much money on it. On the other hand, I don't want to
> waste _any_ money buying garbage...

Ralf:

The Picstart Plus is manufactured and supported by Microchip
Technology; you'll probably be very happy with it unless you don't
have a Windows machine (Picstart Plus and MPLAB only run under
Windows).

MPLAB (and the Picstart Plus plug-in) can be downloaded at no charge
from Microchip's web site, so you should have no problems keeping
up-to-date with the latest versions.

The price is higher than what we pay here in the States, but I
suppose that's to be expected.

-Andy

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