[time-nuts] Old nixie tube displays

[Michael Baker]

Hello, Time-Nutters--

Jim Lux wrote:

To those tinkering at home, though, this cycling through is great.. If
you're willing to fix it yourself, and maybe have a hangar queen or princess
for parts, or you don't need ALL the functions to work (never needed that
knob anyway..), then you too get really nice gear to work with. (and,
besides there's something really satisfying about that orange glow of the
Nixies... It impresses people who see your garage, because its redolent of
Atomic Age science fiction movies of the 60s and 70s.)
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For what it is worth, I keep a couple of vintage
HP counters, sweepers and timers operational in my
shop simply because they are so, well... kuel.
Besides, the flickering of the nixie tubes impresses
the natives.  You gotta admit, an old 10 digit HP
frequency counter cycling away on its internal reference
just oozes panache....

Mike Baker
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