Metis Adrastea wrote:
> Being so disappointed I've thought on buying a programmer directly
> from Microchip, hoping this would solve my problems once and for all,
> at least for a few years. I have a clear idea of what I want to do in
> my way of learning using PICs and for that reason I've sampled (in the
> course of time) the following models:
>
> 16F628A, 16F684, 16F84A, 16F877A, 18F2455, 18F2550, 18F4550.

My EasyProg (http://www.embedinc.com/products) can program these except the
16F84A.  That is an obsolete chip which costs more and does less than others
like the 16F627A.  For hobbyists using PICs in low volume, it doesn't make
sense to use the low end of a subfamily.  For 18 pin PIC 16 you only need to
look at the 16F648A and 16F88.  The rest are just downsized versions of
these that may cost a little less, but you're better off having the more
capable chips around for various projects than saving a buck per PIC on a
handful of them.


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