I had used a bunch of these back in the day...
  I purchased yhese Futaba Vacuum Flourescent displays for $4 each.
  I wanted a winamp display and a unique nameplate for my desk.
  
  It comes with a 10 pin connector but 5 of those get grounded 2 for +v5 and three data signals....
  Using a pic18f452 to drive it.
  Also ported it to an pic18f1320
  hex file below is for the 18f452 that works with the schematic shown.
  Also have code for a car warning message panel

Here is a shot of the display. It draws about 1 amp at 5V so it's not a miser but it is bright and only 5 connections to make it work.

Thought I would archive these files here…

• vfd-character.pdf
• vfd-command.pdf
• vfd-interface.pdf
• vfd-schematic.pdf

Even made a simple VB character generator

• char-gen-vb.zip