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>From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] 
>On Behalf Of Harry Pfeifer
>Sent: 22 March 2007 01:13
>To: piclist@mit.edu
>Subject: MPLAB on old laptop
>
>
>I have been working on my home computer, developing projects 
>which use PIC microcontrollers. The completed projects have 
>been installed at a location remote from my home, and a need 
>has arisen to be able reprogram these devices in-situ from 
>time to time with an upgraded program. I have an old (1997 
>era) laptop computer with a 200 Mhz Pentium and Windows 98, 
>and hope to load MPLAB onto it, but am concerned as to its 
>suitability having regard to its small memory size by modern 
>standards and some of its 1.3 GBhard disk capacity is already 
>taken up with other programs.  I realise that it will run much 
>slower, but I don't have a problem with that
>
>Questions
>1  Has anyone had experience with using the current version of 
>MPLAB  on a  computer of that era? How successful is it 
>

Not at all, I tried to run 7.22 on my Sony Vaio picturebook with simmilar specs to your laptop and it wouldn't run.

>2  Is there an earlier version  of MPLAB still available which 
>may be more suitable, and if so how can it be obtained?
>

The link in Peters post shows the archive.  I think most of the 6.x releases worked ok with 98.

>3 I understand that Microchip has a website forum which may be 
>a more appropriate place to post  my question. How do I access it?

http://forum.microchip.com/

Regards

Mike

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