These displays are only badged by Counting Instruments - they were manufactured by IEE in California and CI was just a distributor.
Pete Sagan from the Keeney company had the idea to adopt these displays for slot machines. From an interview, "Uprights [electric floor-standing slot machines] were considered as games without any reel mechanisms. We had to get around the reel mechanisms because of the Johnson Act. So we came out with the Panascope with lighted symbols at the top. We picked it up from the new computer business. The Panascope was an adaption of a digital readout where they just showed numbers. We asked the electronics outfit in California if they could screen symbols instead of numbers, and they said yes. So we were on our way." The first slot machine product using them was the Keeney Red Arrow, in 1960, and a lot of other companies jumped on the idea soon after. I collect old slot machines and I have five that use this kind of display. Strangely enough, I have some EDGE LIT displays with fruit symbols. They were made by Japanese company Stanley for another Japanese company, Manix, that briefly made small slot machines for export to the US in the 1970s. Two wrecked Manix machines came my way, and I built a whole one out of them that can be seen here: http://www.pennymachines.co.uk/Forum/download/file.php?id=3469&mode=view On Dec 27, 2:48 pm, marta_kson <[email protected]> wrote: > Would there be any interest from the group members in buying NOS/NIB > slot machine projection displays made by the brittish company Counting > Instruments? The same as shown on this > sitehttp://www.electricstuff.co.uk/count.html > as the second item from end of page. Chanses are there might be just a > few of those very rare items for sale. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/neonixie-l?hl=en-GB.
