Thanks to all who responded to this. I'll try out each suggestion in the
interests of experimenting. I've bought up a lot of materials including
something new for me, Datak FR-4 protoboard (their No. 12-601, labeled
on the package "For circuits with many DIP's). I don't have veroboard or
a mini drill as Brian suggests, but I'll get to it.

This is a good education for me, I'm learning a lot.

Thanks

Bob


Robert L Cochran wrote:
> I have a protoboard (the Datak model 12-617) on which I plan to plug in
> a PIC16F88. This protoboard has a breadboard like system of tie points
> and buses on the solder side. I'm using an 18 pin socket for this, and
> want to be able to do in-circuit serial programming on the chip.
>
> I have 2 different programmers: the Warp-13A from Newfound Electronics
> and the EPIC Serial Programmer from MicroEngineering Labs. The EPIC has
> a 10 pin header block J3 that looks like this:
>
> http://microengineeringlabs.com/support/icsp.htm
>
> Now my question is, how do I install .100 headers as two rows of 5 pins
> each, that can be plugged into with a 10-pin connector, on the Datak
> protoboard? The tie points are electrically connected into 5 pin buses,
> breadboard style. So it seams to be that if I solder in 2 rows of Molex
> .100 header pins, 5 pins to a row, row 2 will be electrically connected
> to row 1, which I don't want.
>
> The Warp-13a has 5 header pins for ICSP, making the corresponding ICSP
> headers a lot easier to install on the Datak boards. (Why don't these
> protoboard manufacturers have web sites featuring tutorials on using
> their boards, anyhow?)
>
> Thanks!
>
> Bob
>
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