Sorry for the late reply.

> ... the Parallel Port pin 7 is connected by 10k resistor
> to pin 11. As in the setup for FPP define/test you use pin 3.
> Is this an error is is it corrected in software?

It's not an error.  You've probably worked out the 10k resistor acts as
a pullup for pin 11 (just in case the PC doesn't have one).  In FPP I
define pin 3 as the VDD control pin for TOPIC2 (although it's not used
in the circuits I've published) and you might think this would be a good
point to connect the pullup.  In fact, you could use pin 3.  However, I
also set a few other pins high all the time (including pin 7) and I use
pin 7 instead.

> ps I used you assci art to build my first programmer, 1990 was
> it that long ago?

The first version of my programmer stuff found its way onto the net in
March 1994.  A few months later Microchip published AN589 and I expect I
would have used that if I hadn't needed a programmer before then.

David

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