On Monday, December 2, 2013, Philipp Tiefenbacher wrote:
A pic2 programmer should be in my drawer in WEL. Feel free to borrow
it for a few days :)

Note that the current version of the IDE (MPLAB X) is not compatible with pickit2 any more. You either need a pickit3 or an older version of the IDE.

That's the main reason I stopped considering PIC for my projects.

Andreas