nixie tube

Intricate electronic displays such as the Nixie tube (see photograph).

Vulpis read off timings from the glowing nixie tubes before him.

Later, a few vintage clocks even used a form of stepping switch to drive Nixie tubes.

"A mechanical adding machine- electric motor drive, with nixie tubes for a display.

The technology is related to both the cathode ray tube and the nixie tube.

A Nixie tube is an electronic device for displaying numerals or other information using glow discharge.

There were special neon lamps besides nixie tubes:

One advantage of the Nixie tube is that its cathodes are typographically designed, shaped for legibility.

Dekatron, a counting tube (see also nixie tube and neon light)

Neon lamps with several shaped electrodes were used as alphanumerical displays known as Nixie tubes.

VII, which used a Nixie tube display and 177 subminiature thyratron tubes.

Output consisted of two ten-digit displays using nixie tubes on the front of the machine, which also featured a large electric clock.

They operated similarly to Nixie tubes but instead of the full-formed numeric shapes, used segments to make up numerals and letters.

Nixie tubes too are cold-cathode neon displays that are in-line, but not in-plane, display devices.

Display types used were CRT, cold-cathode Nixie tubes, and filament lamps.

Operator consoles initially used nixie tube displays that were quickly replaced by light-emitting diode displays due to reliability issues.

Burroughs even had another Haydu tube that could operate as a digital counter and directly drive a Nixie tube for display.

LEDs had lower power consumption than both VFDs and Nixie tubes.

For split-flap displays, the characters or words are pre-printed, and for nixie tubes the shapes are also pre-formed.

But the need for digit read-out arose with electronic computers in the 1950s with many independent inventions, both in edge-lighting, nixie tubes and other technologies.

Wang calculators cost in the mid-four-figures, used Nixie tube readouts, performed transcendental functions, had varying degrees of programmability, and exploited magnetic core memory.

A proper generic term is cold cathode neon readout tube, though the phrase Nixie tube quickly entered the vernacular as a generic name.

Low-power switching (glow-discharge thyratrons), voltage stabilization, and lighting applications (e.g. Nixie tubes, decatrons, neon lamps) operate in this region.

A time code reader device translated this signal into hours, minutes, seconds and frames, originally displayed on a Nixie tube display, and later with LED readouts.

Such devices are commonly used to drive devices such as Nixie tubes, and vacuum fluorescent displays which require higher operating voltages than the usual 5-volt logic supply.