Re: [neonixie-l] Nixie sighting

2023-01-22 Thread 'Ian Vine' via neonixie-l
Top right looks like a status display for the accelerator IanV On Sunday, 22 January 2023 at 16:59:24 GMT, Audrey wrote: +1 for edge lit, I dont think it's projection since the font appear thinner and the background isnt as dark On Sun, Jan 22, 2023, 11:23 AM Adrian Godwin wrote: It

Re: [neonixie-l] Nixie sighting

2020-01-02 Thread Mac Doktor
> On Jan 2, 2020, at 12:09 PM, gregebert wrote: > > I still have my $10 APF scientific calculator from 1976 which got me thru > high school, college, and did my taxes on it for a few years thereafter. > > The VFD display is still working nicely. Not programmable. Our first calculator had a VF

Re: [neonixie-l] Nixie sighting

2020-01-02 Thread gregebert
I still have my $10 APF scientific calculator from 1976 which got me thru high school, college, and did my taxes on it for a few years thereafter. The VFD display is still working nicely. Not programmable. BTW, that price ($10) is what I paid for it in 1976 at a drugstore. It outlasted the 2 ot

Re: [neonixie-l] Nixie sighting

2020-01-02 Thread Mac Doktor
> On Jan 2, 2020, at 10:12 AM, Robert G. Schaffrath > wrote: > > Funny, I do not recall that. I had a TI-57 in high school that was a gift > from my parents. Quite useful for pre-calculus in 12th grade. Yeah, I couldn't believe that my parents would spring for something that expensive but I

Re: [neonixie-l] Nixie sighting

2020-01-02 Thread Robert G. Schaffrath
Funny, I do not recall that. I had a TI-57 in high school that was a gift from my parents. Quite useful for pre-calculus in 12th grade. When I was in college, I saved up and bought a TI-59 that used magnetic cards to save programs on. Still have it though the battery module is long dead. Probabl

Re: [neonixie-l] Nixie sighting

2020-01-02 Thread Mitch
I remember that! We used to print, "4377." On Wednesday, January 1, 2020 at 3:53:39 PM UTC-5, Terry Bowman wrote: > > > On Jan 1, 2020, at 8:45 AM, Robert G. Schaffrath > wrote: > > There were ways to send ASCII symbols to the ASR33 punch that caused > characters to be formed by the punched do

Re: [neonixie-l] Nixie sighting

2020-01-01 Thread Mac Doktor
> On Jan 1, 2020, at 8:45 AM, Robert G. Schaffrath > wrote: > > There were ways to send ASCII symbols to the ASR33 punch that caused > characters to be formed by the punched dots. My favorite was "DOES NOT > COMPUTE!". That's what we did with my TI 57 programmable calculator. It had to be he

[neonixie-l] Nixie sighting

2019-12-29 Thread Mac Doktor
What the Future Sounded Like (twelve seconds in): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KkW8Ul7Q1I Terry Bowman, KA4HJH "The Mac Doctor" "For 30 years I have been trying to set the story straight about the name HAL coming from IBM with one letter added to each. That was pure coincidence. HAL stand

Re: [neonixie-l] Nixie sighting

2014-10-10 Thread John Rehwinkel
> It's my two IN-18 6digits clocks controlled by serial interface and > combined to 12 digits display. > > It's 3rd time my IN-18 clocks go to movies/documentary... Nifty! Another feather in your cap! - John -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neo

[neonixie-l] Nixie sighting

2014-06-02 Thread Blitzen
In the movie just out, "X-Men: Days of Future Past", there's a scene where a character (in the 1970's) is recording "all three networks, and PBS!" Behind him is all the high tech equipment to accomplish this, including a number of active nixie displays. That's entertainment! -Brian -- You rece