So yesterday I have contacted Noritake Itron with inquiry about both displays. Unfortunately production of both finished few years ago, they haven't any stock, and there's no substitution.
Here is info from their Nagoya office (I live near Nagoya):
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Thank you very much for your inquiry this time.
But we are afraid to inform you that the requested FG166A2 was discontinued and stock and alternate are not available as German office notified.
Further to FIP32A6R, though we are not 100% sure but Noritake should not have substitution, too.
We assume that you are intent to repair your music equipment.
If so, we would recommend to contact official dealer
Oberheim Matrix, but they may have some display stock for the repair inquiry.
We are sorry that we can not meet your expectation this time.
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We have to deal with it. It's a pity to throw away our beloved instruments just because display will die one day after so many years... There must be some solution and I will study schematics more, but my limited knowledge of electronics is enough good for repairs but not for inventing such modification. Still I believe some clever person can solve this problem and connect standard modern character display with 14pin parallel HD44780 standard.
Until this god save our VFD's!
Daniel Forro
On 17 Jan, 2014, at 1:04 AM, Daniel Forró wrote:
In MKS70 there's FIP32A6R, or maybe FIP32B6R. Probably also discontinued...
Daniel Forro
On 16 Jan, 2014, at 11:26 PM, Daniel Forró wrote:
That one I need, too...
Yes, Noritake Itron still exists and they produce VF displays.
Daniel Forro
On 16 Jan, 2014, at 9:52 PM, tim p wrote:
Same manufacturer of display as the MKS-70