Hi group, Does anyone here know when edge-lit displays were introduced? There are two Swedish computer consoles, allegedly built in 1953 and 1956, which use these. Could you buy edge-lit hexadecimal digit displays as a component back then? Or were these fitted later? Or were they home-built?
The 1953 computer BESK, whose console can be seen at Stockholm's Museum of technology (Tekniska museet), is shown here, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightguide_display The 1956 "Facit EDB" was a copy of BESK. Its console can be seen at Datamuseet in Linköping, south of Stockholm. It looks very similar. Wikipedia's article on nixie tubes says they were introduced in 1954, so they could not have been an option for the 1953 BESK. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/neonixie-l/-/dsqn9xNanXYJ. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
