I know, they impressed me when I found them, and I've now moved totally to the enhanced mid-range series - higher spec, easier to use, more facilities, and a considerably lower price
I also find internal oscillators VERY useful, they are mostly more than accurate enough, and gives you more I/O and more board space.
Hi Nigel,
If i can figure out how to program that chip with the PicKit 1 (yeah that's a 1, not a 2 or 3 ha ha) i might give that chip a try. I never got around to getting the PicKit2 or 3.
I too have used mostly the internal oscillators. Pretty accurate. In fact, i did serial communications with the standard PC home computer and no problems on the transfers. Supposedly that's not a good thing to do as a crystal is called for to keep the sync accurate (some spec like 1 percent or something), but using the internal oscillator has always worked for me. It could be because i use most of these within a narrow temperature range (room temperature maybe 65 to 90 degree F range) and i dont need to take it outside (yet) where the temperature would range from probably -20 to 120 F.