misidentification of Nixie tubes, was Re: strange remark about your collection?

Oh, get off your high horse. I know that. I even allowed for it, and, for that definition, I agree - and agreed. In the quotes you posted: The latter line was my compaction of my original. Here's the original it's a compaction of: I think recognizing that trademarks get genericized in informal use hardly counts as the "rewrit[ing] history" you seem to want to cast it as. Even if you think it's happened to "Nixie" less than I do. Nor do I think it fair to cast me as doing that "because [I] don't know any better" when, if you would bother to read the text I wrote upthread (and that you even quoted), it would have been obvious that I was aware that Nixie was once (and may still be) a trademark and that I was agreeing with you for the strict trademark definition. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse at rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B