Since others have covered the LCD questions, I'll tackle the programmer
one. As far as I know, the only programmer that will work directly with
MPLAB (other than the Microchip ones, of course) is the WARP13 from
Newfound Electronics (http://www.newfoundelectronics.com). MELabs would
be the people to talk to about that. I could be wrong though, as per
usual :)

Josh
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Joe Smith wrote:
>     Also anyone have any suggestions for getting an EPIC programmer from ME
> Labs to work with MPLAB 6.10? Is this even possible? I have checked google
> but I haven't found much.

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