If you are handy with a perf board, I can recommend a programmer made =
from
the design and parts sold by Peter Anderson:

www.phanderson.com

For $9.50 you get the components and design, but no board.  Also =
requires an
additional DC power supply, about 16 volts.  Anderson's economical
proposition is to use a pincushion type breadboard at the platform for =
the
programmer, but I simply built the programmer on a scrap of proto perf
board.  The design is simple enough, and works quite well.  It is a =
variant
of the classic Tate programmer driven from the PC printer port.  Design
supports reading, (verifying) and writing to PICs.  It is easy to adapt =
any
such programmer to in-circuit-serial-programming.

You can choose an 18 pin socket for programming 16F84A or 16F628, or a =
28
pin, or a 40 pin.  Or ZIF.  Or a combo of those.

Then you need programming software.  There is a really nice full =
functional programming software for free, at

http://www.h2deetoo.demon.nl/

although that site appears to be down at this moment (hopefully not =
forever!).
The author, Bonny Gijzen, participates in a forum and has been helpful
regarding programming issues.  What a deal.

The program, IC-Prog, is able to program most pics and atmels.

Best Regards,

James Salter

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