Once, two evenings ago I sat down, turned on Hyperterminal and got 'hheelllloo' when I typed 'hello'. I said to myself that's a good connection. It has echo.

I then went to the UART TOOL in PICkit2. It did 'hello' when I typed 'hello'. I thought that was good so I took a snapshot and sent it to the forum. Then I realized that UART has the same 'echo' or 'no echo' config as Hyperterminal. It was set to 'echo'. Therefore it was not connected at all.

Having done that I went back to Hyperterminal and got nothing again and again and even today. Hmmmm But it did work once.

In no case did I get a response from the code in the chip.
Which leads me to another question.

When PICKIT2 is told to READ it displays what is labeled "Program Memory" into which I thought the original StickOS had been loaded. Am I wrong? When I first hooked up my new PICWhacker to the PICkit2 I did a READ. All it showed was FF's throughout. I just read the spec. pages on memory organization. Page 93 mentions "Separate Boot Flash memory for protected code." Is that visible from a READ? I do not understand the virtual and physical memory charts on Page 94. Things have changed since the Digital Equipment Corp made the PDP-11.

Ken