Hi everyone,

I have finally found the time to build a pic programmer (actually I broke
my foot and am stuck in bed for next 4 weeks) and am preparing the parts
list. I washoping some of you might be able to answer a few questions for
me.

I'm preparing to build the david tait programmer, has anyone used a bread
board and wire for this circuit, and are there any problems going this
route over a pcb?

Is there windows 95 software available for this programmer that works with
no or little problems(I'm as new as can be to microprocessor programming)

Is the best programmer to make, or is there a better one. Once again I'm
using win 95.

my first real project will need to count 1222 pulses and the amount of time
it takes to get to each pulse and keep a total time as well, then it must
perform some calculation mostly division. and store the data for possible
upload to a pc. will the 16c84 be capable of these requirements, acuracy to
the thousandth of a sec is required.

I also plan on buyin' the ez pic n book, isthis a good book to use, any
others besides the data books from microchip, got the whole set and the cd
rom

thanx,

Oliver