There's an electronics junk yard here in Phoenix that has boxes full of
them gathering dust.
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>Glad to hear you have a supply. I figured most of them were toast by now.
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>Jim Nichols
>Tullahoma, TN USA
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>On 3/16/2016 10:00 PM, Paul Braun wrote:
>> On 3/16/16 21:56 : , Jim Nichols wrote:
>>> Those Nixie Tube devices were intriguing. We had them as output
>>> devices from some of our wind tunnel instrumentation in the 50s and 60s.
>>>
>>> Several years ago, I stumbled upon a website that was offering kits
>>> to convert them into digital clocks.
>> I love Nixies. I have an old HP electronic counter that has a set,
>> and I've got a box full of others. At one point, I want to build a
>> clock. However, in the meantime, I have my old iPhone 4s plugged in,
>> laid over on its side in a business card holder, running an awesome
>> Nixie clock emulator app that features actual photos of Nixies. The
>> app even is programmed to do the correct fade-in and fade-out, and the
>> random fluctuations in brightness of real Nixies. It's got all of the
>> charm without all of the circuitry and fragile old tubes. It sits on
>> top of my main ham transceiver set for 24-hour GMT.
>>
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