[HN Gopher] Nixie-clock using neon lamps as logic elements (2007)
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       Nixie-clock using neon lamps as logic elements (2007)
        
       Author : _Microft
       Score  : 19 points
       Date   : 2021-07-26 06:58 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | dang wrote:
       | One past thread:
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       |  _Nixie-clock using neon lamps as logic (2017)_ -
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16549144 - March 2018 (16
       | comments)
        
       | Animats wrote:
       | There was an single integrated tube to do this, the Dekatron.[1]
       | Essentially 10 neon lamps in one vacuum tube. This was a
       | bidirectional counter. Putting them all in one tube solved the
       | neon lamp uniformity problem.
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       | Dekatrons show up in early 1950s science fiction movies, and in
       | radiation counters.
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       | [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUUZzG0H9JA
        
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