On 10/6/07, Rob Blanchard <rblanchard@hollandc.pe.ca> wrote:
> It is on a solderless breadboard and it has been reseated many times.
> My programmer (Chipmaster 6000) doesn't support the 877A so that's not
> an option.
>

One option is to forget about this ChipMaster and buy the cheap
PICkit 2 (US$35+shipment) and a ZIF socket.

It seems to be an old product and the upgrade is quite
expensive.
http://www.logicaldevices.com/Products/cm6000.htm

Last time when I was deciding to buy a programmer for
PIC development back in early year 2000, there were
two options, one was to upgrade the universal programmer
from Sprint (now Data I/O). It was so expensive to update
the software that I chose the 2nd option -- to buy a
Promate II and some sockets.

Xiaofan
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