Lawrence Lile 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.
>

  I wish I had a mentor like you when I was that age. I was really interested in
electronics but did not know where to start. At least I became a programmer :)

>
> 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.
>
> Anybody else had problems with WIN ME and MPLAB/PICSTART?
>
> -- Lawrence Lile
> Senior Project Engineer
> Toastmaster, Inc.
> Division of Salton, Inc.
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> 573-446-5676 fax
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