28 Feb
2008
28 Feb
'08
7:03 p.m.
On Thursday 28 February 2008 16:26, Jules Richardson wrote:
Does anyone know when seven segment displays first
appeared on the scene?
Presumably the first ones were VF, and LED came later?
(I was just looking at a museum's mock-up of the Apollo mission control
console, and the fake readout is made to look like a 7-seg display; I'm
just surprised that the digital readouts weren't all Nixie-based back then)
I'm not sure what appeared when, but I first started messing around with them
back in 1975 or so...
Across the street from the store on Canal St. in NYC where I bought 'em was a
place that sold Nixies, including some of the more oddball ones, but I
don't recall when I first bumped into VF displays. I do have a calculator
from back then that uses them, but can't recall
exactly when it was that I
got it, though.
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ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
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