Take a look at David Tait's site.
http://www.man.ac.uk/~mbhstdj/piclinks.html
<http://www.man.ac.uk/~mbhstdj/piclinks.html> .  It has a PIC 16x84
programmer simple to construct. It work very well and it can serve as proto
board for small developments.

The MPLAB windows software tool is free from www.microchip.com
<http://www.microchip.com> 

Regards
Robert Rivoir

        -----Original Message-----
        From:   tens [SMTP:tens@IDOLA.NET.ID]
        Sent:   vendredi 25 septembre 1998 10:30
        To:     PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
        Subject:	

        Dear PICs users,
        Ê
        I'am a biginning to study for PICs, and I have aÊ limited budgetÊ to
purchase neccessary development's tool for PIC, and I think first I need a
Programmer. Can you tell me which is the suitable( cheap and useful )
programmer that I may purchase ? 
        Ê
        Looking forward to hearing your further advice and information.
        Ê
        Best Regards,
        Ê
        Paul H.