> I'm not aware of any PICs that can swing their outputs more than 5V

They can if Vdd > 5V. I've not run PICs to the abs max, which can be
as high as 7.5V, maybe more, but do often use a Vdd of 5.12 or 5.6

And what Byron said

Joe


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