Good advice. Debug Express it is. The incremental cost makes it only $15 for 
the demo board and chip, so not too bad... If the one without demo board comes 
with the debug material anyway, I might go that way based on the answer to the 
question below (second one).

A couple of questions though, as I'm getting overwhelmed at what they offer 
again... :-O

Does anyone use the Serial Analyzer? 
http://www.microchip.com/stellent/idcplg?IdcService=SS_GET_PAGE&nodeId=1406&dDocName=en028600
It looks like it comes with a preprogrammed PIC that just does some play comm, 
right? While I'm not doing any comm on this one, is there anything here that 
can be used in a comm-type project, or is it just educational?

And if I was going to use the 16F887 in other one-off projects, but wanted to 
use the 40 pin dip (or other chips with or without the debugger but in dip 
packaging), and typically using the internal osc, what's the best setup to 
program the dip version? The demo boards are all the small square chips. Should 
I rework a demo board, or piggyback or ...? In other words, I'd use the dip 
chip for everything afterward.

Thanks for your patience. ;)

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