"Atlanta-ham" wrote in message
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I've looked around at PIC circuits, and understand I could program
quite easily with my computer, however, I'm not that good at
programming a PIC either!

You indicated you had no problem with the circuit. Programming a PIC is
more like designing digital logic than it is like programming in BASIC. It
may be a little weird, but it isn't the least little bit hard. Its mainly a
question of getting over the fear. And as Allison pointed, out, a parallel
port programmer is pretty simple. In fact, it's a pretty lame junk box that
doesn't already have the stuff. OK, maybe you need to buy the DB25 and the
IC socket, but the rest is just any old transistor, and a few resistors and
diodes.

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