When I was in high school in Fairfax County, VA in 1968-1970 as a freshman and sophomore (yes, I'm an old guy, too, like some of you), I was placed in advanced math classes (had calculus as a sophomore). In one class, we went one day and marveled at an electronic quadratic equation root solver that had a Nixie tube display with a bunch of digits for each root. I was blown away by the look of it, and I obviously still remember it to this day. I don't know if it was tube based (it might have been at that time) but I suppose it could have been early in the solid state era (since I think it was a pretty compact unit, but then stereos were fairly large in comparison and we had a tube-based record player/amp at home).
But I didn't start buying Nixies or building Nixie clocks until about 2010, however. Too busy working up to that point I suppose...then I ran across some articles on Nixie clocks on the internet somewhere and I was hooked. -- 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/084919c1-e4f6-4439-a1cf-375463aea89b%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
