Olin Lathrop wrote:
> 
>>> Plugging it in backwards could do that.
>>
> 
> 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.

Yeah, I did plug PICs backward myself too..
But the original question was: "Is it possible to hurt a (16F88) PIC by 
reprogramming such that it dies, or at least behaves like it is dead?"
OK, maybe the description was somewhat ambiguous, but I meant it 
literally: only re-programming. I mentioned 'Wisp628', which implies 
ISCP and no plugging out/in.  The move to another board was only _after_ 
it seemed to be unprogrammable.
See also my reply to Jan-Erik for follow-up.
Thanks, Rob.


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