[time-nuts] HP5532A for free
SAIDJACK at aol.com
SAIDJACK at aol.com
Wed Jul 18 02:20:32 UTC 2007
In a message dated 7/17/2007 19:12:15 Pacific Daylight Time,
magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org writes:
>My old HP 523C does not have Nixie-tubes, such modern shit. No, it uses
pure
>neon lamps which light up a little display of 0-9. :)
>I only have a 5-digit one, but there are others that had 6 digits.
I have an old Nixie tube desktop calculator somewhere, it uses diodes as the
active calculating elements. DCL they called it I think. Wow. It's got some
6 digit precision if I remember correctly.
I can see a blue glow inside some of the Nixie tubes, I am sure those tubes
generate IR, X-ray and all sorts of other stuff that makes the mice die around
the house...
bye,
Said
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