Mike Keitz wrote:
>

Mike,
Thank you very much for this informative response. I have been away from
hardware projects for a few years and I am enjoying soaking up all I can
about these devices in the last 48 hours.

> The C84 is likely in the process of being discontinued.


> >3) Can anyone confirm that David Tait's parallel port programmer works
> >for both parts? Can you explain what I should do differently for the
> >16F84?
>

> If you have a programmer that supports only 16C84 and no hope of
> upgrading it it can still program F84 chips, though you need to set the
> PUT bit opposite what it should be and can't enable the code protection.

This is what I was looking for. I knew I had seen this in one of the
many WEB pages I visited.
>

If you haven't used a PIC16C5X before, then there's no
> need to worry about it.  Just concentrate on learning the PIC16X84, which
> shares the same 14-bit core with a large number of more advanced PICs
> like the 16C6X and 16C7X.

I guess you are right. I was using a 16C54 example that does much the
same job as I need to do, so that is why I was interested in the
differences.


Thanks again.