Tubes with "numbers" inside them

[Mark Glinsky]

>I remember from 15-20 years back some lab measuring devices like freq.counters
>and some very hightech HIFI equipment like the Revox tuners had  -  I don't
>know how to describe them better than - "tubes with glowing numbers inside
>them".
>If I remember correctly they were mentioned here on SDIY some 6-10 months
>back.

Those are the  old Nixie tubes - I have  a Hewlett-Packard
frequency counter that uses them.
Still have some Nixies sitting around as well, was
going to make a  giant clock out  of  them 20-some
years ago!


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