I have played with a PIC16C84 a few years back and got mostly positive results but this is a bit of a jump for me. Is it possible to transfer data from a pic and/or connect EPROM to a text file on my personal computer. This would most likely overwrite what is in the file but I may need to append it in future projects. As you can tell I am not fully up to speed here so any help will be appreciated; links, tutorials, books, etc. Also, I assume the PIC16C84 has a more current replacement. Any suggestions on this that would work with my old programmer? Budget is tight so I need to do this the old el-cheapo way. Thanks in advance. stujo -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.