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I ordered a Noritake Vacuum Fluorescent Display (VFD) for the EII that I am sure it will fit and work.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v13/monolism/DSCN0433.jpg

You can see Noritake on top and the original EII display with frame. 


I have a couple EII's now that I can play with.  They are not cheap though.  I paid $82 with shipping for mine from Noritake directly. I believe Mouser carries them also.   The regular color is green.  Now if you want the characters to be blue to kinda match the EII, then you will have to buy the blue filter that Noritake sells and is put over the LCD.  Well here is the rub.. you can't just buy one.  You have to buy 150 of them at a time and they want $3.21 each. Great, so now I have $481 worth of blue filters laying around.  I have pushed back and forth with the LA and Chicago offices about this, and they are sticking to their grounds on this one.  I don't get it. It doesn't make any sense.  They said the filter manufacturer has it set up this.  You would think they would just break a pack open you know and sell them for $10 each and make some money.  Nope. And they won't budge.  

So they sent me one blue filter for evaluation. See pic.    I'll be getting the filter installed in a couple weeks.  My tech has my Sequential Studio 440 and is fitting this LCD in it.  And then I will order another one for one of my EII's and see how it comes out.  With the blue filter of course. They actually used a sharpie marker on the filter so I could not in fact "use it".  I used some rubbing alcohol on it and it came off and has this backwards "F" on it.  See pic.  But that was part of the writing that read part # F3-01-03.  Everything came off accept the F. See pic.   

The Noritake LCD seems to line up exactly from back to back.  At least the holes do.  Here is a picture of one installed in a Sequential VS.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_FMBJEkaC8Lw/RjELpaEqLdI/AAAAAAAADgs/spJh4gt7iL0/s1600-h/IMG_1377.jpg

and a closer image of one in a Studio 440.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_FMBJEkaC8Lw/Rizwx5eL86I/AAAAAAAADW8/6g7d-s9OVhs/s1600-h/IMG_1368_2.jpg

I think it would look really nice in our EII's.  But the blue filter thing is gonna be a bitch.  I should have mine done in a couple weeks and I will post pics. 

James