>I read in a book somewhere that unused microchip pins should be grounded
>to prevent them from "floating".  In the case of the PIC (16F84) should
>unused I/O pins and any other unused pins be tied to ground???  Being
>new with this stuff I'm not sure.  Thanks.
>
>


Yep it is a good idea to this. Especially if you are not using all pins on
one port and you are reading the port and masking off bits by ANDing . You
can make them in or ouput but I usually make unused pins all inputs and tie
them HI.