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Subject: Re: [OM] It'sPi Day!--now Day after Pi Day!-- Mandatory list assignments
From: Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 06:30:24 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
     There's an electronics junk yard here in Phoenix that has boxes full of 
them gathering dust.

>
>Glad to hear you have a supply.  I figured most of them were toast by now.
>
>Jim Nichols
>Tullahoma, TN USA
>
>On 3/16/2016 10:00 PM, Paul Braun wrote:
>> On 3/16/16 21:56 : , Jim Nichols wrote:
>>> Those Nixie Tube devices were intriguing. We had them as output 
>>> devices from some of our wind tunnel instrumentation in the 50s and 60s.
>>>
>>> Several years ago, I stumbled upon a website that was offering kits 
>>> to convert them into digital clocks.
>> I love Nixies.  I have an old HP electronic counter that has a set, 
>> and I've got a box full of others. At one point, I want to build a 
>> clock.  However, in the meantime, I have my old iPhone 4s plugged in, 
>> laid over on its side in a business card holder, running an awesome 
>> Nixie clock emulator app that features actual photos of Nixies.  The 
>> app even is programmed to do the correct fade-in and fade-out, and the 
>> random fluctuations in brightness of real Nixies. It's got all of the 
>> charm without all of the circuitry and fragile old tubes. It sits on 
>> top of my main ham transceiver set for 24-hour GMT.
>>
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