28 Feb
2003
28 Feb
'03
11:23 a.m.
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Tony Duell wrote:
There's a reasonable book on this subject called
'Cold Cathode Tube
Circuit Design'. It covers things like gas-filled voltage stabilisers,
trigger tubes (the cold cathode thyratrons you mention), dekatrons, etc.
Unfortunately at less-than-reasonable prices! www.abebooks.com gives
three copies; US$144, 175, and 407 (!!) for ex-library books.... I
wonder what's the big deal?? It's not like this is anything other than a
'backwater' science.... Evidence of a secret Bookseller Price-Fixing
Cabal operating in our very midst??
Anyway, I have about 40 Decatrons... might be fun to make a big shift
register memory, or some other elephantine retro-computing project.
Cheers
John