On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 11:24:52 -0500, you wrote:

>I have been working with a 14 year old whiz kid who made the mistake of
>saying to me "I want to learn about C. Do you know anything about it?"
>Every week or so I show up and we play electronics.  It's great fun,
>everybody should try it.
>
>Yesterday we took a PICDEM-2 (that is cheating I know) and stuck an '876
>in it and taught it to blink the LED's with CCS C.  Led Blinky worked!
>
>He's also got PowerC on his computer, and can make it say "Helluva =
World"
>and so on.    Yes, I would recommend the '876 as a first chip, to chime =
in
>on a different thread.  It does anything a 16xxx PIC will do, there is
>lots O' memory, etc.).   Just goofing around with this stuff is what got
>me started in it in the first place.
>
>Unfortunately he has a Windows ME machine.  MPLAB 5.7x chokes when it
>tries to use the com port to talk to a PICSTART programmer.  I wonder if
>MPLAB 6.xx will fix this?  I have stuck with 5.7xx until the last dog
>dies, because it has proven to be more stable on my machines.
You can keep 5.7 and still use 6.x - even run them simultaneously

I still use 5.7 most opf the time but need 6.2 for Picstart Plus support =
for the 12F675 - I compile
it under 5.7 then import the hex into 6.2 to blow the chip.

I am using win98 though.

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