According to this page of manufacturer

http://www.noritake-itron.com/subpages/productse/Partsearchfull.htm

it's discontinued... Let's try to find a substitution. Hopefully there
will be some, or some clever person will invent a modification for
using of new standard display.

Daniel Forro

On 16 Jan, 2014, at 7:55 PM, Daniel Forró wrote:

> You can try to check connections, and measure voltages, or check which
> signals goes from display driver. Maybe problem is there.
>
> It would be probably difficult to find this old VF display, and it's a
> question if there's a modern substitution, I tried to find something
> but it's quite different from two main standards used for displays
> ( HD44780 and compatible for character displays and T6963 and
> compatible for graphic displays).
>
> Display model is Noritake Itron FG166A2.
>
> Try to ask here:
>
> http://www.americanmicrosemi.com/catalog/FG166A2.html
>
> Let us know, I'd like to get one also but couldn't find it...
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Daniel Forro
>
> On 16 Jan, 2014, at 8:41 AM, Nothing Special wrote:
>
>> Recently my Matrix-6 has developed a couple of dead segments on the
>> display; nothing major, but I would like to get it fixed. However, I
>> don't feel like trying to buy a whole additional display/panel board,
>> and Syntaur doesn't have them in stock anyway. I can try to redo the
>> solder connections just in case it's a cracked joint (I suspect this
>> is the case, since it seems to be the same segments on each
>> character,) but if that doesn't do it, does anybody know the part
>> number for the display and/or a suitable replacement part
>
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