fcembrola wrote:
>
> Does anyone know if there is any way to upgrade
> Picstart-16B1 to enable it to program
> 8-pin devices?
>
> If any of you has managed to do something similar,
> I would like to know how you did it.
>
> Thank you and keep programming,
>
> Francesco Cembrola

The software on the Picstart's internal MCU would have to be upgraded,
and it is possible that a hardware modification would be required also.

I think that Microchip now only support the Picstart-plus.  I have just
upgraded my Picstart-plus to do 12C series part, using new firmware
downloaded from www.microchip.com

I suppose that even if Microchip do not support it, it would be possible
to "reverse-engineer" the 16B in order to write your own 12C support!
But it would probably cost you less to upgrade to picstart-plus.

jim ford