27 Sep
2012
27 Sep
'12
9:26 a.m.
On 09/27/2012 08:31 AM, Chris Tofu wrote:
1980? Models since the 70's had large red LED
displays. C: About
then. This one had green nixie tubes (are all green displays nixie
tubes I should ask?). I used to have a Radio Shack calculator w/a
green display also. Pretty sure that had them also. And incidentally
when I referred to the *first* uwave ovens, I was referring to
consumer models. The ones you spoke of dating back to the 60s probably
weren't available or practical for home use. But I could stand to be
corrected. No one I know of had one much before 1980.
This sounds more like a VFD rather than Nixie--(almost) all of the
Nixies I've ever seen have been neon orange. Up until very recently,
VFDs could been seen on credit card terminals.
--Chuck