[Ham-Mac] (no subject)

[Rob Van Wyck]

Here in Thunder Bay VE3XT Bill Unger is going to give a seminar to  
local hams on the PIC microcontroller next month. In his publicity  
email to Lakehead Amateur Radio Club members he writes:

"Before we start I would suggest you review the relationship between  
Hexadecimal and Binary.  And if you have a laptop it would be good if  
you can bring it.  I will have computers set up in the event you  
don’t bring one.  If you do have a laptop, go to the Microchip web  
site and download and install MPLAB.  On their home page it is in the  
design section and MPLAB IDE.  I want you to install MPLAB v 7.30  
from the full zipped install."

My question touches on the MPLAB software ... has anyone used it and  
would anyone be familiar with a Mac application that would do the  
same job? I've always avoided the dark side and don't see the need  
for laptop PC now.

thanks, Rob VE3FLB