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</td><td>BK Precision 844A ALL THE WAY! Expensive, support several thousands of EEPROM type, brand, model, MicroController as well.
Device list... the latest on their site... not sure if it's the real updated one
http://www.bkprecision.com/download/...on/844Adev.txt
You buy one, and it fit everywhere, everyday, never fail. Look only the Microchip section... EEPROM, HCS, MCP, 10F,12F,16F,18F, Dspic... they are all there... just PIC24 is missing in the list</td></table>
If you just program PIC... maybe it's way too much, but the day you want to test-drive something else... you have it.
Around 4-5 years ago, i paid 500-600 CAN$ for that, still working, always new device, support ICSP and have a Ziff socket on the top...
Assuming 500$, it's about 100/year ('till now), 8.333/Moths, ~0.27$ /day.
Do the same for a PICKIT2 after ONLY 1 year...
40$/12/30=0.11$ come on, you spend more than that only in taxes when you buy a coffee... 
As skimask said, include your wasted and lost time to build and debug one... no hard decision. I'm from another planet and old school... i know 
Nice alternative, Of course PICKIT 2, Melabs EPIC, and maybe those from MikroElektronika... i like their EasyPIC, BigPIC, DsPIC dev board so far...
Last edited by mister_e; - 18th May 2007 at 00:15.
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