Just want to say thanks for this!  The build was pretty easy, other than putting the LED 595 sockets in backwards and finding out after I noticed the heatsinks were almost glowing red.  No harm done though.  Caught it in time.  The 595's still work.  Anyway, the Optrex LCD is amazing!  I have one on my Ambika and aside from OLED, those are the best displays I've seen.  The only bummer is one of my 6581's I lifted from a C64 I found for $5 at a thrift store about 8 years ago is bad.  OSC 1 is not