James Newton wrote:

> Tony Nixon posted [to the PICList] that he was able to write a boot loader
> for the '877 including a PC program to write code out to the PIC which
> would
> then write it to FLASH and run it. It dawned on me that a '877
> preprogrammed
> with this boot loader was a $5 development environment when combined with
> the free       MPLAB software and a few bench tools. Just a cable from the
> PC to the (pre programmed) '877 and the pic programs itself.
>
> See:
>
> http://www.picnpoke.com/demo/ROMzap.zip
> http://www.htsoft.com/files/samples/bootldr.zip
>
> http://techref.massmind.org/idea/ebb.htm
> http://www.piclist.com/projects.htm
>
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Note that Hi-Tech also have a 16F87X bootloader available (in C of course!).
Have a look at http://www.htsoft.com/

Regards

Mike