Wouter van Ooijen wrote: >>so I will need to >>design in an alternative for them based around a >>DB15/MAX232 and client software that toggles a PC's serial >>port control pins. > > > For a low-budget bootloader: make that a DB9 and interface it to the > reset pin with one transistor? Duh - I _meant_ DB9, but the fingers never got the message... I was thinking along the lines of the max232 giving me "free" ~13+v for the MCLR pin... -John -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body