I think that just about every 28-pin PIC chip that is available in DIP form has an 8-bit port with the 8 associated pins all in a row. Typically, it is port B. The larger 40-pin models have such ports as well. If you are experimenting with such PIC chips in a solderless breadboard, here is a simple gadget you can make that creates an 8-LED display for such ports. It is one of those obvious things once you see it.
When a PIC chip has been plugged into a breadboard (or in many cases, when a small development board is plugged into a breadboard), this gizmo can be plugged in right along side it and the black wire pushed into a ground bus, saving all the fiddling with the individual resistors and LEDs.