On 2020-10-28 7:01 p.m., Jon wrote:
The DK25 is the only base-8 counting tube as far as I know, which is why the picture is truly diagnostic of the precise model of tube. Why Rodan made it, I have no idea, but it was a regular catalogue item not some weirdo developmental.
a lot of computers used octal notation for binary values, so an 8 position counter may have been useful. even today some internet variables are expressed in Octal.
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