We just got the In-Circuit Debugger from Digikey for these chips; $99
includes the ICD board, software, excellent documentation and 1 877 and
1 876 PICs. My friend and I chose the 876 because it's so flexible...
other choice was a 16C84.

Mike Harrington

Sure looks good to me too.

Paul Lamar

Neither one of us has much experience in Assembler; we built the physical
circuit last night and tested with a VOM to make sure it responsed to
physical inputs as designed. So he will be writing the code this week - I'll
let everyone know how easy it is or not.

These things are great for taking any voltage source and displaying to LEDs,
LCDs, RS232 into a PC, etc.

I was originally considering Basic STAMPs, a PIC with a built in Basic ROM,
but they were not cost effective ($50 for a stamp vs. $5 for a PIC).

Mike Harrington

Mike learn PIC assembly. Real easy. What is real neat about it is you have
absolute control and knowledge of  the time a series instructions takes
to complete unlike C and other high level languages. Each processor cycle 
can be added up to determine exactly when things happen. I don't like C.
Too terse. (Can I say that Russell? :-)>)

If you need any help let us know. If I can't figure it out there are people
on here that can.

Paul Lamar
 
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