I've been tempted - not with B7971s but with a 40 character VFD I have had in the JB for years. It could scroll six letter words and even jargon nicely and there are no gaps between the three groups of 2 digits as in the 6 digit clock. As someone else said, memory space is the issue - I built a FLW a few years ago and that one had about 4000 words in memory with is 16000 letters. That's fine for the 32K micro I used. The 6 letter word lists on the net have between 15000 and 22000 words depending on censorship level. Taking the larger number, that's 132000 characters which is quite do-able with a larger micro. On my FLW I kept all the dirty words and have a selector switch on the back to keep it clean when required, such as when the grandkids get fascinated reading the words. There plenty of VFDs on the e-place in the $100 range.
Currently I'm using the VFD in a speaking clock that emulates the old telephone time service :-) Morris On Wednesday, 15 April 2015 20:41:13 UTC+10, celephicus wrote: > > Everyone on this list has heard of four letter word clocks. But a clock > with seconds has 6 digits. Has anyone ever made a six letter word clock? > > Tom Harris <[email protected] <javascript:>> > -- 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/a8b63d13-04e9-450a-8133-31405e4d306f%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
