Are they still suitable for veroboard use would you say? I don't make PCBs at home, I just use veroboard and breadboard for testing on. Am I likely to experience problems with these, or will a 0.1uF bypass cap take care of noise issues?

1.5K of ram sounds impressive. I was actually browsing the net recently for I2C or SPI addressable RAM modules (not EEPROMs) for storing large amounts of text that would eventually be displayed by an LCD, however if I can fit all of that into the PIC, -problem solved!.. I was only looking for about 512bytes as well! The 18F series may be my answer to this one..

Thanks

Andy Peaple.