So I didn't know where to post this but I thought some might find this interesting. Someone had a HP 34401 bench top multimeter that was working fine, but had a display that was fading and was hard to read. So they probed around the display communication, saw that it was SPI, and then made a device that received the SPI data and put it on a new OLED display. They then fitted all of this inside the old unit so it looks as good as new.
https://hackaday.com/2018/08/29/faded-beauty-dmm-gets-an-oled-makeover/
It makes me want to try to find some scrap hardware on ebay and see if I can repair it. Of course I don't really need another random piece of half broken equipment in my office.