>display, I don't have to change my processor board much.  Does anyone know
>of such a beast? I've looked in EEM and ECN, and see lots of parallel and
>RS-232 type LCD's, but nothing that looks like a 3- or 4-wire serial design.

Does it have to be an LCD?  Siemens and Hewlett Packard do intelligent dot
matrix displays which look quite nice, and the larger ones have serial input
- don't know whether it's spi compatible though - you'd have to look up the
datasheets.

Siemens do a 10 digit alphanumeric dot matrix led (char height 3.7mm) -
SCD55100

Jim