Excuse my ignorance, because I too am a beginner in the vast field of
microcontrollers...

I was under the impression that the low and high range of Microchip's
(regular) PICmicro line were in fact similar enough to start with any
(regular) pic and migrate to another without too many problems other
than peripheral addressing etc changing. Is that the case or am I on
another planet?

I bought a book on amazon.com called "Pic in Practice" by 'D.W.
Smith', that obviously mainly covers the PIC16F84 (mister popular) and
 some other PICmicros' that have some other functions that the
PIC16F84 does not share. I my self just used the book to get started
with the real basics, on the 12F629 and the 16F684 that I got with the
PICstart1 kit that got given to me for my birthday. No problems at
all, and with a little help from the datasheet it all seemed to work
out just great. So forgive me for not seeing the problem of finding
the right PICmicro to start with. IMHO just need to start on something
or rather anything to atleast get the basic feel and understanding.

Thanks,

Sean Schouten.

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