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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
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Posted: Tue Jul 14 09:27:40 1987
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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 ? 

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