31 Aug
2006
31 Aug
'06
6:13 p.m.
On 9/1/2006 at 12:25 AM ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk wrote:
Obviously you can use 'decimal' nixie tubes to
display in octal (just
ingore the 8 and 9 cathodes. Did anyone ever make hexadeximal nixie tubes
with 16 cathodes of the appropriate shapes? I've not seen them in the
databooks.
I've never seen one either. I wonder if it's a limitation of the geometry
where it's just not possible to pack 16 alphanumerics into a bottle without
too many things being obscured by the electrodes. AFAIK, the only fully
alphanumeric nixies were the 13 segment varieties.
Cheers,
Chuck