Olin Lathrop wrote:

> > I don't owe you anything, and you should keep in mind that you're 
> the one
> asking for free help.
>
> And, I was serious about my comment.  Anyone who has plugged enough chips
> into sockets has plugged a few of them in backwards.  I've done it with
> PICs.  The few times this has happened, I have noticed they got really 
> hot.
> It's not hard to imagine the PIC might not respond as specified to
> programming commands (or anything else) after that.

As brusque as Olin can sometimes be with his comments, he is 100% 
correct on this one.  It was a reasonable response to an ambiguous 
question.  If you can't stand the heat, then stay out of the kitchen.

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