Mike Harrison wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Apr 1999 08:10:26 +0200, Lars T wrote:
> >Just an ide‡ that I got sitting here.....
> >
> >Why haven«t any one made a PCMCIA Programmer Yet?
> > <snipped>
> ... but most laptops have serial & parallel ports, and I don't know of
> a pic programmer that doesn't use one of these two ports!
> <snipped>

  Some laptops don't have parallel OR serial ports (witness a PC110
without the port replicator <G>  My older 486 laptops have 8250 UARTs
for built-in serial ports <ack>.  And those tend to break their parallel
ports, too often.

  You can buy a serial port PCMCIA card for $60ish (perhaps less if
lucky on auctions, think I paid $30 for my pair), usually, or a parallel
port PCMCIA card (usually about $120 plus.  No luck yet there.)

  How about IrDA, while we're at it?  (Only half joking, many laptops
have that capability - and no connector wear if you used this method,
which would be a plus...  Could build a Palm Pilot assembler, maybe,
under Palm Linux.)

  Mark