Tjaart van der Walt wrote:
> I think the Promate gives the locations more 'hits' than the Picstart +
> when programming. The blank checking is the same on any programmer.
>
> Because it is the programming rather than the erasing that degrades the
> parts, I rather use a Picstart + on the expensive JW's.

The makes sense.  I have my PICstart Plus hooked up to my development PC
and the ProMateII attached to a DOS machine for production programming.
The windowed parts which I had the most trouble erasing (I persevered
and they finally _did_ erase), were ones that I had to recall from the
production department due to the last-minute discovery of a bug. :-0

The code-protected JWs made on my development PC took maybe an hour to
erase.  The parts from the ProMate took about 4.

--Matt