Thanks, may be using the 876A in a later version. Sticking mostly to Flash
programmable mcus. Hearing a lot of positive feedback about the Warp and
might give it a try.

As a side, I did attempt to assemble the latest version at www.myke.com but
it had trouble supplying the programming voltages to _MCLR. The transistor
circuit used on the pin is a bit flakey, and after "fixing" it and fiddling
with it for a while the programming software still wouldn't burn a chip.
Stock, the transistor circuit supplied 13V high and 6.5V low. Modified I got
13V high and a little under 250mV low.

Thanks again ;)

>I also spent time on the El Cheapo (book version) and eventually gave
>up. My understanding is that it interfaces with the parallel port in a
>non standard way which makes it incompatible with some PC's. The latest
>version on the site should fix this but I never tried it.
>
>If you are looking for a reliable, cheap and fast programmer, take a
>look at the P16PRO (http://www.picallw.com). Last time I checked, it was
>available for about $20 including power supply. For software, you can
>use the free one from http://www.ic-prog.com or the shareware from
>(http://www.picallw.com).
>
>I used the shareware version fo the software and it worked well. The
>only problem is that it does not seem to be well supported anymore. For
>example, the last published version is from 2001 and it does not support
>newer chips such as 16F876A (which uses different programming than the
>16F876). I also played with the free ic-prog and it worked very well.
>
>If compatibility with latest programming algorithms is important, you
>may want to take a look at the Warp13A (about 100$), it works well and
>supports chips like 16F876A. The down side is that is seems to be
>significanly slower (uses serial port rather than parallel) and the user
>interface looks like an outdated Windows program.

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