> Can anyone send me a small project that I can assemble and possibly add to it > so as to use it as a trainer?I have a parallel port pic programmer . You could take a look at the assignments I wrote for the local 'young engineers' group. These assignmnets use JAL, a simple HLL for the 16x84 (and SX). Using a simple HLL might be a better idea anyway! www.xs4all.nl/~wf/wouter/pic/djo/index_e.html succsess, Wouter.