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Article #17753"Magic Eye" tubes
From: John Woods, Software
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1987 23:17
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1987 23:17
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Does anyone (a) know where I can get a Magic Eye tube (if they are even still made), and (b) have information on how to use them (required voltages, etc.)? Believe it or not, I want to use this "stab from the past" to indicate CPU usage on a computer -- I specifically wanted something disturbingly anachronistic (a meter came in second place...). "Boss, I even put Murine in the magic eye!" -Rochester, on a Jack Benny show I heard recently -- John Woods, Charles River Data Systems, Framingham MA, (617) 626-1101 ...!decvax!frog!john, ...!mit-eddie!jfw, jfw%mit-ccc@MIT-XX.ARPA Doktor of the Forbidden Sciences
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!husc6!bu-cs!m2c!frog!john From: john@frog.UUCP (John Woods, Software) Newsgroups: sci.electronics,talk.bizarre Subject: "Magic Eye" tubes Message-ID: <1495@frog.UUCP> Date: Fri, 10-Jul-87 19:17:00 EDT Article-I.D.: frog.1495 Posted: Fri Jul 10 19:17:00 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 12-Jul-87 14:20:05 EDT Organization: Superfrog Heaven [ CRDS, Framingham MA ] Lines: 16 Keywords: anachronism, macho