Thanks for the information. I have to look at the data more closely. Maybe I can get away with using some bits but I may end up needing word sized variables too. It's not NASA critical information, maybe I can just use bytes and round off since none of the data is over 2000.

There is this one chip that has 2G of EEPROM and it's not terribly expensive:

http://www.toshiba.com/taec/componen...VG1S3ETA00.pdf

What is the best thing to do if I wanted to store sentences? Meaning:

"Today is the very best day to program PIC's"

"I have questions but I can't think of any answers"

"ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm"