Not for the Russians it wasn't... ;) On Sunday, December 20, 2020 at 1:29:10 AM UTC+1 gregebert wrote:
> Shortly after, the MAN-2 came out. It's a 5x7 matrix and could display the > ASCII character set. I still have 2 samples my father got from a vendor > sometime around 1973. That was the beginning of the end for nixies. > > On Saturday, December 19, 2020 at 12:55:00 AM UTC-8 Mark Moulding wrote: > >> I believe that the Monsanto MAN-1 was the first commercially available >> 7-segment LED display. It was introduced in 1969, but was so expensive >> (~$300 each, or $175 in 1000s) that it didn't get much use until later in >> the 70s. >> >> I was surprised to find that the Numitron (or its ilk: Minitron, Apollo >> IEEE, and Wamco, and the Russian IV9 and IV16) was also introduced around >> that time. All of the data sheets I have (that are dated - many are not) >> were published around 1972. The Numitron was certainly a mature technology >> by that time, but given that its fundamental technology had been available >> since the 1920s, I would have thought it to have been available much >> earlier. >> ~~ >> Mark Moulding >> >> >> On Friday, December 18, 2020 at 8:38:45 PM UTC-8 nixiebunny wrote: >> >>> The Monsanto MAN-1 was just about the first. It was a calculator sized >>> single digit in a 10 pin flatpack with staggered pins. >>> HP made their display with a controller chip in it soon after. >>> I have a huge three ring binder full of display brochures from 1969 that >>> I found at Black Hole surplus about 20 years ago. It's an amazing >>> collection of advanced and obsolete technologies. >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Dec 18, 2020, 6:06 PM peter bunge <bung...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Can anyone remember what the first LED displays looked like? >>>> My first experience was with a 3 digit multiplexed display with bubble >>>> magnifiers. Did these come out before the single 7 segment displays with >>>> bigger digits? >>>> Did Numitron incandescent come out before the LED displays? >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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+...@googlegroups.com. >>>> To view this discussion on the web, visit >>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/92490683-c82c-4258-aeb7-d80f14cec5f6n%40googlegroups.com >>>> >>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/92490683-c82c-4258-aeb7-d80f14cec5f6n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>>> . >>>> >>> -- 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 view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/ffa79c40-7671-4f5c-b9ce-d620a5199a38n%40googlegroups.com.
