Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
  A friend of mine had the black one.  I remember him
showing my Dad and I
 it, as we sat and fiddled with CB radios out in the back field.  Wow,
 technology has moved on... (just comparing a ?100-in-late-70s-money
 4-watt CB radio the size of two bricks that guzzled AA nicads with my
 ?15 5-watt 70cm handheld the size of an espresso cup) 
But how many people have the Nixie Watch. !?
  Gordon