On Tuesday, February 24, 2015 at 5:40:53 AM UTC-5, Alex wrote: > > Those have been on ebay for a good while from the same seller, I was > tempted a while ago but they are just too high a $ for my taste. The > displays panels themselves are, if i recall from reading somewhere, a > nightmare to drive as they use glow transfer to scan in data, so > essentially gas based multiplexing. Those for 250 do look like they come > with some soviet era wizardry in the box and he states are parallel 8 bit > interfaces (LPT port...). > > I think I actually looked around at the time and discovered they were used > on soviet CNC machines - I even found a Russian companies website offering > LCD replacements for them. >
I have a 512x512 VFD version in my collection. It is either a prototype or a part that failed testing, since there are no printed markings on it, just a number of comments like "Dud" scratched into the glass on the back (in Cyrillic). I was unable to get it to do anything at all, unlike the submarine one I posted about earlier. I guess it is just blue-green, though it is possible it is multi-color or RGB. Here are some pictures: http://www.tmk.com/transient/6F5S8652-s.jpg http://www.tmk.com/transient/6F5S8654-s.jpg -- 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/msgid/neonixie-l/d3d1bb0b-9d39-4bb2-904e-27c2c5a8e5de%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
