At 05:56 PM 4/11/00 +0200, you wrote:
>Hi Everybody!
>
>I hope you can help a friend of mine?
>
>He would like to know if the picstart lite was/is the same as the old
>picstart 16b1 programmer.

Yes

>He would also like to know if there is any upgrades for the picstart lite to
>program most of the pics.
>He knows it will never program all the pics because the zif socket limits to
>only 28 pin devices.
>
>Thanks for your valued help.

Follow my sig, look under free stuff for the phoenix 16B file and program a
new 17C4x pic, use the TM4 driver (DOS) to drive the new firmware.

Also see adapters.htm for connections to other pics.




Regards,

Jim Robertson
NEWFOUND ELECTRONICS
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Email: newfound@pipeline.com.au
http://www.new-elect.com
MPLAB compatible PIC programmers.
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