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On 2011 May 12, at 23:32 , jb-electronics wrote:

> 
>> I have about 50x b7971 tubes now, waiting patiently for some things to put 
>> them into. :)
> 
> Whoa, who did you kill for these?
> 
> Jens
> 
>> Sent from my iPad 2 3G
>> 
>> On May 12, 2011, at 4:04, coggs<[email protected]>  wrote:
>> 
>>> (I guess there’s no harm cross-posting this stuff to both neonixie-l
>>> and cogwheel-nixie-system groups)
>>> 
>>> Regarding Caller ID, one could go to a pure hardware solution and
>>> solder chips, but my tendency would be to use a PC, an off-the-shelf
>>> USB modem dongle and a little Perl script to monitor the modem for the
>>> Caller ID and get it to the display.
>>> 
>>> The demo video was done using a very small Perl script, BTW. But any
>>> programming language w/access to the peripherals would work just as
>>> well.
>>> 
>>> Regarding more than 8 tubes, you would just need to build two B7971x8s
>>> systems and communicate with both of them independently through two
>>> virtual serial ports. The scroll shifting would probably work w/o any
>>> modification to the display driver board firmware.
>>> 
>>> You are lucky you if you have 16 B7971s; They might fetch over $1500
>>> in today's market.
>>> 
>>> ..c
>>> 
>>> On May 11, 7:50 pm, Wayne de Geere III<[email protected]>  wrote:
>>>> I'm thinking your B7971x8 display support landline caller ID functions. 
>>>> Just wanted to put that out there as an interesting function, especially 
>>>> for a display with support for 7+ numbers/characters. Caller ID and call 
>>>> waiting caller ID is part of the ADSI spec, it's basically a Bell 202 
>>>> (simplex) modem burst of data.
>>>> 
>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_Display_Services_Interface
>>>> 
>>>> http://telecom-info.telcordia.com/site-cgi/ido/docs.cgi?ID=SEARCH&DOC....
>>>> 
>>>> There's probably a chip out there that grabs it (through an optocoupler or 
>>>> optoisolator) and delivers TTL level ASCII out the back end.
>>>> 
>>>> I'd like a longer than 8 tube device, personally, but 8 would be great, 
>>>> especially if the data scrolled.
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