5 Oct
2012
5 Oct
'12
7:12 p.m.
On 10/05/2012 08:57 PM, Jules Richardson wrote:
I've got some nice ol' gas-discharge amber
ones in the [UK] junk box
which will get here to me one day - from what I remember of the PCBs
that they were mounted on, they originally came from fuel pumps.
Ohhhhh, Panaplex? Basically seven-segment neon displays? I LOVE
those. Unfortunately they tend to go for big bucks. If you have some,
you are morally obligated to do something cool with them! Even if it's
just yet another clock...they're beautiful displays.
I picked up an 80's-vintage Royal calculator from
a junk store the other
day, just because of the nice green-blue VF 7-seg display that it had in
it. I'm a sucker for that kind of stuff...
Me too. :-) They are easy to drive, too.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA