30 May
2015
30 May
'15
9:11 a.m.
On 05/30/2015 10:19 AM, tony duell wrote:
At the start of the decide, certainly - but by 1980 I would have thought
that the cost had come down significantly, and LEDs surely had better
longevity than panaplex-type devices, so I don't know what the reasoning
for using them would have been.
Thinking about it though, I'm not sure that I've ever seen a gas (petrol)
pump with LED displays, although I don't know why they wouldn't exist.
Mechanical displays seemed to be the norm back in the day, to be replaced
by LCD displays in the nineties and 2000's.
cheers
Jules
JOOI, does anyone know when Panaplex 7-segment
displays started going the
way of the dodo, to be replaced with LED displays (and, on the back of
that, what were the advantages of a Panaplex-type display over an LED one?)
It would appear that in the early 1970s LEDs were very expensive.