On Aug 13, 2010, at 3:59 PM, Todd Lyons wrote: > However, I'm trying not to read too much into your statement =20 > either. "May not be the best choice" is certainly not the same as =20 > "don't use stuff that old". Yep. You didn't say exactly which development board or which PIC you =20 have, and the ICD2 is still reasonably useful, I think. If you were =20 to say you were planning on using a 16F84, you would certainly get =20 "don't use stuff that old" comments. But as is, you're just getting =20 pushes toward the 18F series (or newer) over the 16F stuff. BillW --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .