Okay... I'm wondering, would anybody buy this product from us if we put it
into production? Basically I've gone and built a neat little intelligent
in-circuit programmer / power supply / debugging tool, allowing for
in-circuit programming of the 12/16/17Cxxx OTP parts, as well as in-circuit
programming and erasing of 16Fxxx parts. The box can also provide power to
the application circuit as well as RS232 tx/tx for debugging purposes, all
through a 5-pin connector. We built it for in-house use for our biosensor
telemetry work, but it could be cleaned up and produced commercially,
either as a naked board or in a nice little box. As a rough guess, we could
still probably make a little money on them if we sold them in the sub-$100
range... putting it midway between the DIY programmers (such as the myriad
AN589-based designs) and some of the more expensive commercial offerings,
as well making it a sort of poor-man's ICE system. Opinions, comments, and
questions are welcome.

Cheers,
mcb
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