Once again many thanks for all the INPUT.As always very much appreciated.

mackrackit, I've book marked that link, very useful.

Joe, if I could get my PIC's to dance like that I'll know I've arrived. I'm still adding the building blocks at present, that said there's been a big improvement in what I know and can do in just a week, great stuff.

Henrik, so are we're saying that the program is counting up from 0-9 in bytes? Does it load and output the values $00000000 (LOOP1) $00000001 (LOOP2) ...etc. If that's the case I could directly output to a seven segment display!

So the question is: Is there a PIC for my PICkit1 that has an eight bit wide output GPIO?

Dave