>Anybody know of anything !less expensive! but similar that will handle
>small (8K or so) SRAMs?  I2C or SPI or MicroWire, not EEPROM (too slow).

Did you check XICOR product ?
  http://www.xicor.com/

There is fast access FLASH, NOVRAM, and EEPROM.

Another way to use normal SRAM can be to use some shift registers
to send the address to the RAM. Then you will need less PORT pin
to access the RAM.

Regards,
  Philippe.

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