Hi Stuart,

At 4:02 AM -0500 8/2/01, Stuart Johnson wrote:
>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?

        The 16F628 is a great deal, but make sure your programming
software/programmer can handle the more complex configuration word.
        Also the 16F8xx chips can be set-up to write into their own
program memory.

Heinz

>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.