MOTM

>  >Oh wow.  I love this idea.  Even better than brightly lit volt- and
>  >ammeters.  The only thing that would outdo this is if the LFO had a
>  >nixie-tube display that counted cycles.
> 
> Nah...
> 
> Find an old (*old*!) front panel from an Altair 8080 and rig a BCD counter 
> to show VCO freq in binary.

I was thinking more of the old accelerator equipment I saw on a
junior-high-school tour of Fermilab ... all these continuously running
particle counters where the low-order three or four digits were just a
blur.  You know, like you can't reset it, the counter just shows the
number of LFO cycles since you first built the instrument.  :)

I've never seen an Altair.  Wasn't that something like the last "obscure
hobbyist" computer before the age of Apple/Commodore/etc ?  (showing my
youth, I know)

Chris