[EricH]

OK, we'll see if I can remember info from that far back.

2004 units did not have the same compiler/MPLab/whatever else as 2008 units. The good news, they were programmed in C.

But, as a general guide: MPLab was used to write and compile the code (in C, either year in question. I'm not entirely certain what it had/didn't have. The code was then loaded onto the controller using an IFI loader.

I don't know the procedure for RobotC, sorry.

Now, for something that may help you a bit more: http://www.kevin.org/frc/ is the site where Kevin Watson posted a lot of his code from 2004-2008. This is a lot of specialized code, but there should be some basic code around there too. There is also documentation.