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[Alan Cordeiro <cordeiro@avlna.com>]

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SORRY, SORRY, Mea culpa, Mea maxima culpa,

I meant to say those GREEN SEVEN SEGMENT displays that are
sunlight readable. They are about a half inch high, just like
LEDs but GREEN. 

(Yeah, I've seen them when they're on....)

NOT NIXIEs, ( now that someone described them, I remember
seeing NIXIE displays, had them in old DVMs )

Time to get off this thread.........

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>Jeez, you must be young :-) Nixie tubes are the display
>	technology of the 60's and 70's, before LED's became
>	viable.  They're somewhat similar to little neon lamps:
>	there's a separate, number-shaped tube for each digit,
>	and they're all stacked one behind the other. To display
>	a particular digit, you just turn on the lamp shaped like
>	it.
>
>	Pretty cool-looking, especially the fact that the numbers
>	travel up and down inside the tube :-)
>
>	Oh, and they're all orange ...
>
>	-Arun "No, I've never written a Nixie tube driver" Rao
>

> I *have* actually used devices with those tubes (just didn't know the
>name).
>
>You're right, they look way cool when counting, say, radiation numbers.
>- peter
>  peterhe@microsoft.com - http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/1001