On Tuesday, August 22, 2023 at 4:29:52 AM UTC-4 Jon wrote:
Guessing they might've been used in petrol (gasoline) pump price displays?
I have a childhood memory of watching what I now know to be a numitron
display on the pump with a 1/2 oscillating on and off as the total mounted.
Back when a 1/2p was actually a relevant concept with a physical coin too...
Up until around 5 years ago, my local cheap gas / truck stop place still
used Numitron displays on their diesel pumps. Some time between then and
now they upgraded them to LCD displays to match the gasoline pumps.
In various out-of-the-way places in the US there are still digit-wheel type
pumps with handwritten signs under the glass saying things like "Multiply
displayed price by 5". In more populated areas the Weights & Measures
("scale police") people normally won't certify those.
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