Terry, that's less than $100 for all those IN-17 tubes, even at current prices.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/267171764109 (not my auction, but I have purchased other things from this seller, can recommend). On Mon, Mar 17, 2025 at 1:23 PM Mac Doktor <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mar 17, 2025, at 6:09 AM, newxito <[email protected]> wrote: > > It still has the same number of nixies as the non-RPN version but an > additional horizontal neon for the exponent sign. By keeping the 14 nixies, > it was possible to maintain all the clock modes and implement a dynamic > exponent range. The keyboard has now 5 additional keys and the > functionality was extended from 15 to 33 operations. > > > This looks fantastic but I can't afford the tubes. OTOH, if my HP35s dies > a replacement will cost a significant chunk of it. > > > Switching to arbitrary-precision arithmetic was a failure. It worked but > was too slow for a few special cases of pow and non-integer factorials > (gamma approximation). I will give it another try, but for now I’m back to > 64-bit floating-point. > > > I don't need anything that sophisticated but whatever works. > > > Terry Bowman, KA4HJH > "The Mac Doctor" > > https://www.astarcloseup.com > > "Would you like to see the relevant data?"—343 Guilty Spark, *Halo 2* > > -- > 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, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/4BC359C0-2CA3-41E1-AE99-F2663F88D6F4%40gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/4BC359C0-2CA3-41E1-AE99-F2663F88D6F4%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 [email protected]. To view this discussion, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/CAOX%2BRHK6UiffJo83fVN2OdLeSExTRvr5YfOSYmS-hPgjiN%3DBBA%40mail.gmail.com.
