Text to these photographs got a little lost: Since Hivac was a British company, these display tubes could have been for use with the old British £sd currency, which was in use until 1972. Here there were 12 pennies to 1 shilling, and 20 shillings to 1 pound. See Comptometer photos
On Saturday, September 4, 2021 at 6:15:03 PM UTC+1 GCNige wrote: > [image: Comptometer_10.jpg][image: ComptometerLsd_1a.jpg] > > On Saturday, September 4, 2021 at 1:27:44 PM UTC+1 w...@kitsunegari.net > wrote: > >> That 0 of the 10 looks quite odd. Is it made using 2 cathodes? >> >> On Friday, September 3, 2021 at 2:16:33 AM UTC+2 tntm...@gmail.com wrote: >> >>> Quite possibly! I've seen some that do 0-8! >>> >>> On Thu, Sep 2, 2021, 8:13 PM Paul Andrews <judg...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> I’m guessing channel indicators. >>>> >>>> On Sep 2, 2021, at 7:55 PM, Tom Harris <celep...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> Sorry I see that they were base 12. Decimal hours? But clocks count >>>> hours from 1, not zero. >>>> >>>> On Fri, 3 Sep 2021, 9:52 a.m. Tom Harris, <celep...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> What were these tubes used for? Base 11 is not used much. >>>>> >>>>> On Fri, 3 Sep 2021, 12:00 a.m. Paul Andrews, <pa...@nixies.us> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> The GR-B can also display two digit numbers (1 thru 10) >>>>>> https://www.nixies.us/bwg_gallery/grb/ >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Thursday, September 2, 2021 at 2:29:39 AM UTC-4 tntm...@gmail.com >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> I sent you an email >>>>>>> On Thursday, September 2, 2021 at 1:59:40 AM UTC-4 LB wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> The Hivac XN-2 can display the numbers 0 through 11, and is to my >>>>>>>> knowledge the only tube that can display two-digit numbers (excluding >>>>>>>> pandicons). I have 3 I'd be willing to trade away, please PM me if you >>>>>>>> are >>>>>>>> interested. >>>>>>>> [image: XN-2_Digit_10_WA copy.JPG] >>>>>>>> [image: XN-2_Digit_11_WA copy.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 neonixie-l+...@googlegroups.com. >>>>>> To view this discussion on the web, visit >>>>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/ca01c628-0160-4d2e-80ed-3ec3df30c21dn%40googlegroups.com >>>>>> >>>>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/ca01c628-0160-4d2e-80ed-3ec3df30c21dn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>>>>> . >>>>>> >>>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >>>> Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >>>> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/neonixie-l/oV9PIaO4dUI/unsubscribe. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >>>> neonixie-l+...@googlegroups.com. >>>> To view this discussion on the web, visit >>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/CAHjG12QEhvbJHaFTbGL5KQFgaVa5RGRVB%3DSJj%2B7LYSxrtzq65Q%40mail.gmail.com >>>> >>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/CAHjG12QEhvbJHaFTbGL5KQFgaVa5RGRVB%3DSJj%2B7LYSxrtzq65Q%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>>> . >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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 neonixie-l+...@googlegroups.com. >>>> >>> To view this discussion on the web, visit >>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/91700E98-72C6-43EB-80B4-AE6F70CCDB7F%40gmail.com >>>> >>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/91700E98-72C6-43EB-80B4-AE6F70CCDB7F%40gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>>> . >>>> >>> -- 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 neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/c6147be6-9893-4f19-82bf-0ed9f11c3ebbn%40googlegroups.com.
