Upgrades are available for free from the Microchip web site. You will need
a blank chip (preferably windowed for future upgrades) and you can program
it yourself in the programmer. Save the old chip for the next time you need
to upgrade.


At 08:52 AM 5/24/97 -0700, you wrote:
>I need to program a 12C508 (8-pin PIC) and MPLAB tells me that my
>PICSTART plus programmer needs to be upgraded to firmware version
>01.01.06 or later. Does anyone know where can I get this upgrade? I
>bought the programmer from Digikey last year and don't see any upgrades
>in their catalog. Thanks.
>
>Dan Mulally
>dmulally@silver.sdsmt.edu
>
>
Larry G. Nelson Sr.
L.Nelson@ieee.org
http://www.ultranet.com/~nr