> I'm a bit stuck on how to sort out the 16f87x's though. I'd prefer to
buy
something not too expensive, but if I gotta do it myself, so be it. I'm
thinking of something like Wouter's Wisp628, but with a 16c745 instead
of
a 16f628 in it.

I know one client of me uses a Wisp628 with a standard USB-to-serial on
OS/X. XWisp ran find after some fiddeling with the name of the serial
port file. Or you could build your own adapter with an FT232BM chip.
Personally I stay away from anything non-flash because I always need a
few iterations to get verything right, so using OTP components would be
expensive, and using /JW's very tedious (and I Wisp628 does not program
them!). And you would have to write your own driver at the PC side, and
you would have to do work again every time I update the firmware.

anyway, succes!

Wouter van Ooijen

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