Check out the Sept 95 issue of Popular Electronics.  Terry Weeder of
Weeder technologies has done an article and sells such a unit cheaply,
kit form.  He has
interfaced a PIC to a serial EEprom and an lcd display with scrollback
buffers.  This issue is within the last year.  He used a 4 bit binary
output DTMF chip, but his code can be modified for your 2 of 8 output
chip.  BTW, does the chip have a selector for 4 bit binary out or 2 of 8?

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( Dave Schmidt       DSchmidt Technologies )
( dschmidt@rain.org     Ventura, CA        )
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On Tue, 7 Nov 1995 John.P.Hollingshead@HAPPY.FIRSTNETHOU.COM wrote:

> I'm looking for code, pinouts etc for LCD matrix displays.