I took myself off to the MIT flea market about a month ago. The best thing I came away with was an old iPod with the scroll wheel interface - my wife prefers the physical interface to touch screens as she can operate them without having to look at them.
There were no nixies, vfds or dekatrons of any description, either loose or in equipment. One guy I asked suggested I try ebay. Another said quite a few people had been asking. Oh well. Glad that there are still finds to be had though. On Monday, July 3, 2017 at 11:46:33 AM UTC-4, Paolo Cravero wrote: > > Hello. > While walking around an electronics flea market/rally in Italy I met real > dekatrons for the first time. They were six, mounted on a counting device > marked "Leybold 55962" (picture attached). > > Not much to say about the device except that it was used in a laboratory > as a radioactivity counter (you can look up more info on the net) and I > couldn't see it working. The price asked was 100 Euro. The seller had > another device with dekatrons going for the same price (no picture taken). > > In the whole rally then I saw two Nixie-based frequency counters, no spare > numeric indicator tubes (I did not open every single valve box to check for > mis-labeling :) ) and I bought three small unmarked 9 digit VFDs like > IV-21. Still, well worth the journey. > > I wonder if there were "mass-produced" devices featuring dekatrons? > Paolo > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to neonixie-l@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/a114bbd4-512f-451a-8430-274c5aa1ec13%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
