Another old timer here... I was living in north Kent in the south east
of England and when I was about 14, round 1970, I was going to a radio
club in Dartford. I was building an oscilloscope (E.N. Bradley The
Oscilloscope Book) using a VCR139A and I was struggling to get it
working correctly and Geoff G3NPA at the club offered to help. So I
hauled the beast around to his house and sat in his workshop was a
partly built home made 6 tube nixie clock... All glowing neon and TTL...
I have never forgotten it.
My second exposure to neon was some years later when I was working for
the UK Atomic Energy Authority in Dorset. One of my projects was to
operate a small gamma ray densitometer that used a row of dekatron
counters from the PM tube. I spent hours looking at them.
My career (chemical engineer) took me off to the USA, Canada, France,
Spain... and when I had a more settled life I again picked up
electronics as a hobby. One of the areas I gravitated back to was
nixies, dekatrons and oscilloscope tubes.
Grahame Highlands Scotland GM4EKI
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