David Segonds wrote:
> The big lesson for me was two folds:
>
> - Home made parallel programmer are crap and you can find good working
> programmer supporting many chips out there.
> - The 16f84a is 3 times more expensive than the 16f628a that has more
> features.
> - Most books and information on the Internet is outdated and does not
> take into account "new" things like USB and more modern chips
> manufactured by Microchip.

Right.  All of which gets mentioned here regularly.  The problem is that
most newbies don't know of or don't think of looking for resources like this
list and the Microchip forums.


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