Here is an interesting site that talks about the pins for the Hitachi 44780 LCD controller.

http://lcd-pic.blogspot.com/

Pin Description

1 Vss, Ground

2 Vcc, +5V supply

3 Vee, Contrast Voltage

4 R/S, Instruction / Data Mode select

5 R/W, Read / write

6 E, Enable

7-14 D0-D7 Data lines

15 +Led

16 -Led

I am still digging for some information so that I get write a basic "hello world"
program in BASIC. Hopefully I will find a couple of hours of quality time in the near
future to bond with the compiler and the PIC-EL III board.