uP programming startup

[KA4HJH]

>Okay, I want to program PIC chips..
>I need a KIT.. a simple KIT, with a book on the commands, maybe a few
>simple examples, a programmer, and software..
>I HAVE looked at all the commercial sites, but they are soo damn
>confusing i want to scream...
>Im soo irritated by the layout and confusion of some of these sites, it
>makes me want to program with an SBC again and just do straight
>assembler with a 6800..
>
>Someone help me out here.. BTW, I only have about $100 bux to spend..

Check out this site:

http://www.circellar.com/

Call them on the phone and beg for a free trial issue of Circuit Cellar Ink
if you can't find it locally. One issue worth of ads will set your brain on
fire. Go through back issues of Electronics Now (formerly
Radio-Electronics)--they've had lots of cheap PIC (and other) burners in
the last few years. Microcomputer Journal had a of lot of good stuff too
but it's been on the skids for a while now. And of course they're always
Nuts and Volts.

Lucid Technologies has an interesting universal burner but the DNS comes
back bad--they may have moved:

http://www.cs.com/lucid/

Terry Bowman, KA4HJH
"The Mac Doctor"