Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!steinmetz!nyfca1!brspyr1!miket From: miket@brspyr1.BRS.Com (Mike Trout) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: "Magic Eye" tubes Message-ID: <1437@brspyr1.BRS.Com> Date: Tue, 21-Jul-87 15:14:06 EDT Article-I.D.: brspyr1.1437 Posted: Tue Jul 21 15:14:06 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 24-Jul-87 00:37:37 EDT Organization: BRS Info Technologies, Latham NY Lines: 29 Keywords: Nash/Rambler/Kelvinator/Kaiser-Fraiser/etc I'm not sure if this is exactly a "Magic Eye" tube, but it sounds similar. A friend of mine in high school had a beat-up old Rambler (or possibly Nash; I don't remember the year but I'd guess about mid to late 50s). The center console had a large circular "tube" item around which were arrayed some archaic controls. Underneath it all was the legend "Weather Eye". When I first saw this I (being a naive teenager) asked, "whutinhell izzat? Sum kinda tornado warning device?" (This was in Jokelahoma.) Actually, the console was the heater/defroster control unit. The tube in the middle showed perhaps fan speed (I'm not sure about this; maybe it could have been some kind of thermostat indicator?). The whole gizmo was real sci-fi looking and could have come out of the control panel for Fireball XL-5. Am I nuts, or is this something like a "Magic Eye"? Does anybody remember this car? Incidentally, this car also had: 1. one of those really neato push-button automatic transmissions 2. a push-button starter that had to be activated AFTER you turned the key 3. a rectangular steering wheel 4. under the back seat, there was...uh, never mind -- Michael Trout (miket@brspyr1) =-=-=-=-=-=-= UUCP:ihnp4!dartvax!brspyr1!miket BRS Information Technologies, 1200 Rt. 7, Latham, N.Y. 12110 (518) 783-1161 . . . .... .........:.::::.:::::::::.:::::::::::::::::::::::::::o "By and large, I was only trying to fool Mr. Trout." -Dan Rather