Theres a station out in the country not far from here that has the same pumps, they are made by gilbarco, and there are still some pumps with nixies in in this country. Magnetic flip 7 segments still sem to be the norm here, lcd's are creeping in slowly.
On 15 May, 21:02, threeneurons <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wednesday, May 15, 2013 12:05:13 PM UTC-7, AlexTsekenis wrote: > > > Somewhere around the 38 sec mark, but it lasts for 0.2 sec or less so > > don't blink! > > Numitrons? > > >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5xhPAundL4 > > > Alex. > > I caught a glimpse of it. Had to replay that part a couple of times. 0.2sec > might be generous. It looks to be on the fuel pump. I vaguely remember > numitrons on gas pumps. I definitely remember 7-segment neon panaplex-like > displays being used. They had those at the gas station I regularly used, > for a couple of years. But that would be back in the 80's. > > At least I learned something, by watching the rest of the video. Mixing > diesel with gasoline, isn't quite the disaster its always made out to be. -- 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]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
