Efrain, It is a serial port programmer - not parallel. Yes it works well with with my notebook. I have tried it with Windows 95 and it worked O.K for me. Mo > Thanks Mo for your input regarding the PIC-Programmer2 > I'm building one and have some questions: > It works well with new Laptops Parallel ports? > The driver for PIC12C50X can run on win95 dos promt >Efrain >