I can confirm this. We also have one programming station on a laptop (WinXP)
without a serial port. It works through a USB to RS cable, don't know the
manufacturer, but the type is UC232A. In the .INF install file, the
manufacturer is USB2SERDevices, device spec is SerialPort,
VID_0557&PID_2008. Just make shure you install it somewhere in the range
COM1 to COM4, as MPLAB won't go any higher. I think they are bought at
different locations, every time we see them, we take one with us. So we have
about 5 of them  lying around. It's just a grey or green cable with all the
electronics inside the DB9 connector, green ones are long, grey ones are
short. See http://www.bb-elec.com/product.asp?sku=UC232A&dept_id=145.

Regards,
Claudio

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Just to verify we understood you right, you have:

1) Windows XP
2) Microchip ICD (original not ICD2) and working with
16F87X
3) Michrochip MPLAB 5.7
4) Some brand of USB to Serial adapter

If this is correct you have a found a way around a
problem many people, including myself, have been
facing.  Please let us know the brand of the adapter
you are using and if possible the vender.  Thanks.

-Eric


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