Okay, I suppose I'll give it a shot.
Great news.
Jens: on the subject of Inditrons in the 1940s, that's just wrong. We were once given bad information as to the Inditron's age, and had a date estimate of 1940s up on our site for some time. We have since corrected that information, but it's quite likely that our estimate was regurgitated on various sites. We're the first site to have the Inditron datasheet, and we're the first site to say definitively that the Inditron was released in 1954, with plenty of evidence to back it up.
Yes, it makes no sense that the Inditron was released 1940 when the official datasheet is from 1954. It would be interesting to know, though, when the NU engineers started working on a readout tube.
There were also no Telefunken Nixies in the 1940s.
Yep. A German tube collector told me that he actually has listings of the Telefunken factory in Germany, and the first Nixie tube they produced was the ZM1020 in 1966. Maybe they had some internal discussions and maybe even prototypes of display tubes, that is still not clear.
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