Not worth the hassle unless you are a wealthy collector who wants to look at it admiringly.
My very first digital clock was built from a 5-digit edge-lit DVM around 1980, and like this one, it had stepper relays. Making the clock work like a clock was easy. It was pretty amusing when midnite arrived and it went kachunk-kachunk-kachunk for several seconds. But I quickly found out the relays were unreliable despite numerous attempts to clean them, and the clock would lose time and various digits would randomly not light. Not all of the problems were with the relays; the lights were not solidly connected, either. I kept it around for several years, and when I relocated for my job in 2005 I left it at my old desk at Intel and have no idea what happened to it. Hopefully someone gave it some love despite the unlikelihood of getting anything in return, but I suspect it's buried in a landfill somewhere. On Thursday, September 5, 2024 at 2:01:34 PM UTC-7 ZY wrote: > On one hand I want it, but on the other hand I can't bring myself to take > apart the vintage system just for the display. > > And on the third hand... the price > > On Thursday 5 September 2024 at 15:43:37 UTC-4 Mac Doktor wrote: > >> Another day, another bargain: >> >> >> >> https://www.ebay.com/itm/375631941251 >> >> >> Terry Bowman, KA4HJH >> "The Mac Doctor" >> >> https://www.astarcloseup.com >> >> "If only you could see what I've seen with your eyes."—Roy Batty, *Blade >> Runner* >> >> -- 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 view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/8de96725-20b0-479a-8f0a-b6feadc73d15n%40googlegroups.com.
