Re: [neonixie-l] Re: Is this a coincidence or what?

2016-02-28 Thread Dekatron42
I've heard of a lot of explanations for the name Nixie, like the ones above, but I have never seen it written in any Burroughs document and since it is quite common to use ordinary words and fit a project or product name to that word I thought it might be possible that people working at Burroug

Re: [neonixie-l] Re: Is this a coincidence or what?

2016-02-28 Thread Instrument Resources of America
That would be correct!! Ira. On 2/28/2016 12:58 PM, Jon D. wrote: My understanding is NIXIE = Numerical Indicator eXperimental - 1: NIX-I or NIXIE -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop rec

[neonixie-l] Re: Is this a coincidence or what?

2016-02-28 Thread Jon D.
My understanding is NIXIE = Numerical Indicator eXperimental - 1: NIX-I or NIXIE -- 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...@googlegro

Re: [neonixie-l] Is this a coincidence or what?

2016-02-28 Thread Instrument Resources of America
My understanding regarding the name Nixie is that the official tubes were known as 'N'umerical 'I'ndicator Tubes. The N from numerical and the I from indicator became the "NI" of the word NIxie.Ira. On 2/26/2016 11:47 AM, Dekatron42 wrote: Could this book have something to do with the nami