I saw some of them on a Control Data CDC 160A (Desk version) there was 8 digits like that behind a frosted glass. the bulbs 8 and nine was unused, the computer worked in octal. no keyboard, the input was made with 24 toggle switch and a fugitive switch for "enter" the "tower version" was only equiped with small bulbs of 3 or 4 mm as binary display. in the early eighties, those jurassic computer where used for training purpose at the Control Data Institute.
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