Ed Edmondson wrote:
> I went to an auction and bought
> the following items for $25.00.
>
> Picstart Plus Programmer, An ICD-2 in circuit debugger, An orginal
> ICD with a TransData demo board, A PICDEM 2 plus, misc. 877 demo
> boards, 25 f876, 877 devices and a CSS PCW C compiler.

Wow, that's a heck of a deal for $25.

> The question is where do I begin?

With the documentation.  First read the 16F87x data sheet.  Those PICs are a
little old now, but quite capable and perfectly fine to learn on.  The
16F877/876 Were the top of the line a few years ago.  The data sheet will
tell you all about what the chip does.  It's a nicely self contained book
that has everything in it from the architecture, to the peripherals, to the
instruction set.

Next read the MAPASM/MPLIB/MPLINK manual.  That tells you how the
programming tools work.  Once you've done that, download MPLAB and have a go
at it.  Start with a simple program to blink and LED and expand from there.


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