> I am an experienced programmer in C and Basic on PCs and am looking to
> program 16F84, 16F628, 16F876 and 16F877 chips.

I recommend NOT using the 16F84, using a 16F648A instead of the 16F628
(unless you plan to do a commercial product, but in that case you can
always scale down to the 16F627A/16F628A afterwards), and using the
16F876A and 16F877A instead of the 16F876 and 16F877. See discussions
elsewhere on this list for more information. I would also seriously
consider looking into the 18F series of PICmicros. They tend to be
more C friendly (resulting in even tighter code), are not much more
expensive and have many features that now make me wish I had used them
from the start. Of course, all this depends on having a good
programmer, but as the PICkit 2 is inexpensive and now supports most
PICmicros, there isn't a really good excuse to sticking with old PICs
because of a bad programmer.

Greetings,
Maarten Hofman.

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