1 Sep
2006
1 Sep
'06
4:45 p.m.
I haven't found a way to drive nixies from more modern equipment yet, not
one that I understand, anyhow. Especially the Burroughs 7971 "British
Flag" one. I thought of building a character generator using a PAL, but I
really haven't decided what I want to do wit them yet. Maybe create an "On
the air" sign with my callsign, alternating with a clock display.
-T
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From:
"Roy J. Tellason"
I wouldn't mind getting some nixies to play
with at some point, but
it's not
a real high priority item on my list. I did have
one assembly that I
picked
I've found that nixies are not very hard to find; just check out older test
equipment. I picked three pieces of test equipment a couple of weeks ago for
basically nothing, each of which was working and used nixies for the displays.