I think you should consider equill's (always) wise words of advice. Although you declared in your original post that you don't want to fix your analog board (presumably because of some assumed complexity of doing so), all of the alternatives involve much more fuss and bother.

Equill's reference to a "dry joint" is about a commonly-encountered fault in the compacts -- bad solder joints in the yoke connector cause many display problems (including no display). The fix is simple and quick. So, too, is a replacement of a particular capacitor on the analog board that is notorious for failing.

The document I linked to earlier has a collection of troubleshooting tips for compacts in general. Many of these old machines can be resurrected with very little effort.