Hi Joe S.
I was at the CodeAlarm factory back in 1996. They had a machine that programmed the PICs. They put a tube (25) of PICs in the machine and using air pneumatics they picked the chip up inserted it into a ZIF socket, blank checked it then programmed and verified it. The machine would then remove the chip and place it in a new tube and go on to another chip. They told me they created the machine and that Microchip wanted to buy the rights to the machine from them. These were SMT version PICs for their keyfobs. A person there would keep an eye on the stock in the tube and make sure the machine kept running.
No telling what they use today!
BobK
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