Mine is way less nostalgic. Despite apparently being older than most of you (which I mention only because I don't consider myself old, so it comes as a shock when I am the oldest person in th room), I have no memory of encountering Nixie tubes until this millennium. At some point I saw a Nixie clock - it was probably fairly recently,Mir would have been on the Internet, something like Pinterest or tumblr, and I remember thinking how great they looked, and how Incouldnt afford one.
Fast forward to just over a year ago when I was about to get married (again) and I was on Pinterest looking at steampunk stuff for the wedding and naturally I cam across some nixie clocks. This time they looked more affordable, maybe it was just relative to the wedding itself, so I bought a kit and put it together and it formed part of the decoration for the (indeterminate epoch) house-party themed reception/treasure hunt. It features in my wedding album! Naturally, I figured I could do a better job of the software, and so started the obsession. A few months later I was in a hotel on a business trip and I thought "I should just buy six of every tube". Oh the naïveté! Well I have a whole bunch now, but I am trying to be selective, buying just the ones that I find particularly interesting. As far as my better software goes, well it turns out I had to build my own hardware to accommodate it, and I Just finished my first real PCB. Real, because it is a complete clock. I worked my way up to it by building individual parts as standalone boards I could breadboard together. I have also gotten distracted with fixing other old tech along the way - antique fans and tube radios and my latest - a little RCA 45 record player - a 45J2. -- 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/76b0f7f1-023f-456d-b71f-add16283ffc5%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
