>If you can build a good, cheap programmer - maybe
>with ICD support into MPLAB, you can't go too far
>wrong.

Well the ICD support is where you will founder, as the information is not
available for the ICD2 with MPLAB, and 18F chips, and for the product to
have a reasonable lifetime it will need these, as otherwise you are limited
to ICD1 with MPLAB version 5.xx, and 16F87x chips.

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