Re: CB spares
The green displays arrived from Mouser today, so yes, they do really have them.
I've now had a chance to have a look at them and compare them with the red ebay display which has been established as having the right characteristics - size, pinout, etc, to drop straight into a standard sized late seventies / early eighties Cybernet.
Regarding the green Kingbright display from Mouser:-
The package is exactly the same height and fractionally less wide - this is only because the red ebay display overhangs a little bit more at the ends. The character height and width are the same.
It has 16 (2 * 8) pins in the same layout and with the same pin spacing as the red ebay display.
This display DOES have decimal points but they are inert / not connected to any of the pins.
The pinout is exactly the same as the red ebay display, as per image #3 in post 23 of this thread. Correct orientation of the display is given by the position of the decimal points rather than by an index mark.
Like most conventional green seven segment displays the face of the display is mid-grey - that should disappear behind a green filter, but if you have steady hands you could always carefully paint the display face matt black.
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