Here's One For Tube Lovers
Oct 26, 2002 at 2:02 AM Post #2 of 6
mmm, so pretty. Yet so expensive.
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Oct 26, 2002 at 10:08 AM Post #3 of 6
Hey Lextek !!

Man, that's a beauty. I'm to old and can tell you, "for once in my life", I worked with a Borroughs Nixie Tube display desk top calculator... It was so beautiful...

Nixie tubes, for the youngest, where the first electronic "mono-position" displays. Before that, only mechanical numbers or neon little lamps in binary order forming the numbers on a computer painel... like a Borroughs B 500s. Old stuff...
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Only some 15 years after that, Texas Instruments launched the today's display formed by seven LED segments. Dates to be confirmed...

Very nice Lextek !!!
 
Oct 26, 2002 at 9:54 PM Post #4 of 6
bah! you can find much cooler ones on ebay. Just type in the word "nixie" and you will get a buncha stuff.
 
Nov 3, 2002 at 8:18 PM Post #5 of 6
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Originally posted by TimSchirmer
...you can find much cooler ones...


LOL!
 
Nov 3, 2002 at 10:28 PM Post #6 of 6
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