hmmm ...
So lets say you have gone your whole life w/o eating Pizza because there was not a pizzaria close by
Would that keep you from allowing yourself to eat pizza if you had the chance?
Just giving you a hard time since you made it sound like some people may be too traumatized to pull the chip.
To be honest I am still on the fence between the PICStep and another board.
And Firmware is part of the difference between the two.
The other one has ICSP so a Firmware update would be connect a couple wires and go ...
More than likely I would make some changes to the other boards Firmware myself, if I go with it.
Alan - Thanks for the input.