Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!gatech!bloom-beacon!bu-cs!bucsb.bu.edu!eap From: eap@bucsb.bu.edu.UUCP (Eric Pearce) Newsgroups: sci.electronics,talk.bizarre Subject: Re: "Magic Eye" tubes Message-ID: <1045@bucsb.bu.edu.UUCP> Date: Tue, 14-Jul-87 09:27:40 EDT Article-I.D.: bucsb.1045 Posted: Tue Jul 14 09:27:40 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 16-Jul-87 05:14:31 EDT References: <1495@frog.UUCP> <35ffa63b.b8ab@apollo.uucp> <6@spar.SPAR.SLB.COM> <1384@brspyr1.BRS.Com> <1841@kitty.UUCP> Reply-To: eap@bucsb.bu.edu.UUCP (Eric Pearce) Organization: Boston Univ Comp. Sci. Lines: 31 Xref: mnetor sci.electronics:966 talk.bizarre:2487 In article <1841@kitty.UUCP> larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman) writes: >In article <1384@brspyr1.BRS.Com>, davef@brspyr1.BRS.Com (Dave Fiske) writes: >> > Overheard the other day: "I'm so old, I even remember when calculator >> > displays were LED!" >> >> Nixie tubes. > > Hell, Nixie tubes are MODERN compared to some of the stuff I worked >with in the 60's: > > Nixie tubes are state-of-the-art compared to the above! Actually, >we still have a fair amount of equipment in our labs which use Nixie tubes. >It was only in the later 70's that LED displays were bright enough to >compete with Nixie tubes (from the standpoint of visibility). > Does anybody remember the nixie-tube clock in "Dressed to Kill" ? They showed it in the scene when Angie was at the museum guy's apartment, when she wakes up in the morning. It was inside a clear plastic box - so you could see all the electronics inside. I always wanted to buy or build one... Anybody know of a clock circuit for that type of tube ? Or possibly a source for one similar to the one in the movie ? -- ******************************************************************************* * UUCP : ..!harvard!bu-cs!bucsb!eap |-+-+ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+\ /-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+* * ARPANET: eap@bucsb.bu.edu | > : : : - @ - | g * * CSNET : eap%bucsb@bu-cs |-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+/ \ +-+-+ +-+-+ +-+* * BITNET : cscc8vc@bostonu | | Blasted by ZAXXON | ; | * *******************************************************************************