i give up
Hi all,
Nostalgia trip for some...
Soldered and fixed up some bad corrosion.
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i give up
Nixie tube clock?
Found it a few days ago.
Batteries were unrecognisable, green and white caked corrosion everywhere!
Nearly used a whole can of cleaner to get it off.
A battery lead had 'popped' off as well.
Otherwise in very good condition, close to excellent.
But the old girl came back to life...
Made in Japan 1974
No √ in those days.... ha ha...
On off switch on the side and a carrying handle loop at the top left (Has the carrying handle as well).
Question now, is what do with it now, lol!!
Cheers,
GT250.
bob_m_54 (01-07-20)
You could use it for your weekly shopping!!!!
I'm out of my mind, but feel free to leave a message...
Use the tube to build a VFD clock...
Ohh... how I have to strongly disagree:
Of course I could not afford that one as a young teenager back then but I did have a calculator in 1972 with square root and % buttons.
Pressing x = after the result would square the result. Later on I messed around with it to do more, like counting electrical impulses.
I spent all the money I got from my God parents when we left Australia to move to Germany. I think it was about $200, which was an insane amount of money for a kid like me but back then. I thought it was worth every cent and I was the king for a couple of years until a kid showed up with his much cooler looking calculator with big fluorescent display.
Last edited by Uncle Fester; 01-07-20 at 06:36 PM.
Update: A deletion of features that work well and ain't broke but are deemed outdated in order to add things that are up to date and broken.
Compatibility: A word soon to be deleted from our dictionaries as it is outdated.
Humans: Entities that are not only outdated but broken... AI-self-learning-update-error...terminate...terminate...
most of us like to see the other side also.
Bl**dy hell, Fester, I'm still envious. I had an RPN calculator at about the same time as then, but I would have loved an HP RPN calculator. Can't recall what mine was now, but it was almost as good as the HP. I think I paid $79.95 for it.
I'm out of my mind, but feel free to leave a message...
TVguy (02-07-20),Uncle Fester (03-07-20)
Reverse Polish Notation. Not quite intuitive, but a hell of a way to do some maths.
Dave Jones from the EEVblog is a calculator fanboy.
Check out the World's Most Precise Pocket Calculator
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lsemmens (03-07-20)
I sold 5 of these display modules last year =) Had them sitting in a box for decades, from back in the days when you could buy calculator kits.
gulliver (03-07-20)
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