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In article <1004@speech1.cs.cmu.edu>, phd@speech1.cs.cmu.edu (Paul Dietz) writes:
> What exactly is a "Magic Eye" tube? (I think I'm showing my age, or lack
> thereof...)

> Overheard the other day: "I'm so old, I even remember when calculator
> displays were LED!"

Gee, I guess I'm an old fossil.
But I even remember:

Nixie tubes.


Well, what do you expect.  I also have an automatic phone dialer that I
bought from some mail-order company around 1976.  It doesn't take
advantage of DTMF (tone) dialing, but has a big sheet of plastic inside
that is rotated by an electric motor.  You "program" the numbers by
using an "IBM pencil" to fill in the appropriate digits (a la
standardized tests).  As the sheet rotates the graphite-filled spots
pass through a set of contacts, which send the appropriate number of
pulses.  The whole thing is pretty big, and has to sit underneath a
telephone.

Plus, it came with its own "Amphenol connector".
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