> I misplugged (is that a word?) my 877 into the breadboard and there was
some
> sort of short...things heated up very fast! Anyways, I thought maybe the
> chip was still okay and successfully downloaded a new program to it. It
> didn't work at all in the circuit though. Is this correct that I should
> still be able to program a dead chip...or is it not dead at all (perhaps
> just the port I'm using)?

You don't know what part of the chip might have been damaged.  Just because
the programming logic still works doesn't mean everything else does.  Toss
it and move on.


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