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Article #17812Re: "Magic Eye" tubes - the Nixie Clock
From: Chris Sylvain
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1987 22:12
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1987 22:12
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In article <3452@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> brian@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU (Brian Kantor) writes: < <In Electronics World Magazine in the middle 60's there was a circuit for <a quartz crystal clock with Nixie display. < ... Nowadays, if I had to use Nixies, I'd use some cheap <horizontal output transistors and a BCD-to-10-line decoder. How about the Signetics DM8880, "High Voltage 7-Segment Decoder/Driver" ? It can drive a Sperry SP-730 or SP-760 display tube directly, with TTL BCD input.. -- --==---==---==-- .. did gyre and gymble in the wabe: .. ARPA: cgs@umd5.UMD.EDU BITNET: cgs%umd5@umd2 UUCP: ..!seismo!umd5.umd.edu!cgs
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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!mimsy!umd5!cgs From: cgs@umd5.umd.edu (Chris Sylvain) Newsgroups: sci.electronics,talk.bizarre Subject: Re: "Magic Eye" tubes - the Nixie Clock Message-ID: <1798@umd5.umd.edu> Date: Fri, 17-Jul-87 18:12:41 EDT Article-I.D.: umd5.1798 Posted: Fri Jul 17 18:12:41 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 18-Jul-87 17:01:50 EDT References: <1495@frog.UUCP> <35ffa63b.b8ab@apollo.uucp> Reply-To: cgs@umd5.umd.edu (Chris Sylvain) Organization: University of Maryland, College Park Lines: 16