>>BTW, James has a similar programmer project called CUMP. I'm sure he'll
>>chime in any moment.
>
>All the better if someone's already there. Anything that would fit into a
>'beginner's kit' model -- programmer, easy-to-understand documentation,
>starter projects. Of course, most of this can be achieved by reading David
>Benson's Easy PIC'n and PIC'n Up the Pace books.

As you are suggesting having a CD in the box, is it worth getting permission
from appropriate places to redistribute the MPLAB environment, and maybe the
HT-Lite C compiler on it? You would need to include the necessary web links
to the original sites on some form of documentation page, but this could be
an html page on the CD anyway.

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