At 01:35 PM 5/25/97 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi
>I have had a great idea (I think!) for a PIC programmer.  I have recently
>posted about programmers for the psion and acorn without much success but
>this might change things.  The one thing most computers, PDAs etc have (or
>is available as shareware) is a terminal program.  If a simple set of
>commands were developed where the hex file was merely sent (either as text
>or a xmodem protocol or something) after a few configuration details to the
>programmer then it could work with almost anything without having to make
>specialist software.  This would probally need a decent PIC to implement a
>file transfer protocol and store the hex file but I think it could be done
>if someone has the time to do it (not me at present - it's school exam
>season!).  What do you think?
>
>
>Tim
>
>p.s.  A further development could be a programmer with assembler built in!
>

I've been looking at a similar solution for the 8088 protable that i
typically use to program my pic16c84's.  The com port runs to slowly to
send the proper clock signals to the pic and the parallel port doesn't work
properly anymore.  Besides that, being too cheap to BUY a commercial
programmer, I'm looking at how to program a pic16c84 with another 16c84.
I'll let you know if it gets anywhere.