1 Sep
2006
1 Sep
'06
5:46 p.m.
On 9/2/2006 at 12:36 AM ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk wrote:
Does anyone else remmeber the 8 and 9 segment displays
used by (IIRC)
Sharp in the early 1970s. They were vacuum flourescnet, single digit to
an envelope, made by Itron (IIRC). The segments were curved, and you got
much more natural-looking digits than from a 7 segment straight-bar
display. Of course the problem that 2 rapidly alternating digits can look
like something totally different remains.
I still have a Sharp calculator that uses those. The "6" looks too weird
to me to be readable.
Cheers,
Chuck