strange remark about your collection?

On 10/05/2012 09:12 PM, Dave McGuire wrote: Yes, those are the ones. I think all the ones I had were double-digit ones, and I had a couple of sizes (from memory - as it's been a few years since I last saw them - some were 1" high and others around 3/4"). I'm guessing I had around fifteen of them, but not all of them were still functional - and at least in one case the glass faceplate simply fell off, which maybe suggests that they're not very well bonded and/or the bonding material is deteriorating over time :-( It's a shame that there's not much else beyond a clock that lends itself well to using just a small number of 'cute' displays - ideas on a postcard... What would be pretty cool would be a Sudoku grid formed with some cool ol' display technology, but as you say these kinds of things seem to sell for not insignificant sums these days. To be honest, I've not looked into it for the green-blue ones. Hacking some drive/control electronics for the Panaplexes wasn't hard though, so I assume the green-blue type aren't much different. There's an elderly betamax VCR in the same store which keeps tempting me, as that looks to have a similar type of display (probably with custom VCR-related bits of course, but I could always mask those off behind a bezel and just expose the numeric part). cheers Jules