Interestingly (or not, depends on your view), the image used is actually
lifted from the Wikimedia Nixie page at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixie_tube - the image is a no-copyright one
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NixieFrequencyCounter.jpg by Eric
Barbour, senior editor of Vacuum Tube Al
While we are at it... what made those instruments really interesting were
the (in)famous prescalers. Usually ECL technology dividers by 10. In those
years 5V technology (TTL, and later Schottky TTL) didn't fit the bill for
100 MHz counting...
Sad to say that there were very few of those instrume
When I was in school, late 70's-early 80's, I was working as a tech. One
time they had me build a universal counter, around an Intersil chip. It
worked upto 10MHz, but sadly had a LED display. They wanted to go upto
100MHz, and I did add an ECL chip. It initially was run of a cheap 10MHz
xtal o
Hi Dalibor,
Are you calculated cost of manufacture of tubes?
Best regards from Barcelona
Alek Z.
W dniu 2013-06-26 08:55, Dalibor Farný pisze:
Hi Michel,
You are right, I am also eager to it glow. As soon as the shed is
built, I will move all the stuff there and start with it.
It should b
