Not nixie, but they are glass tubes ;-) Also not vintage, but heading that way thanks to cheaper lcd and oled...
I recently bought a few of these surplus ELO E122426 2 x 20 char point-of-sale (cash register) displays on eBay... They have a single USB interface that appears as a std serial port on the pc and provides power. I haven't cracked them open, but I would not be surprised to find a std ttl serial pinout on the board somewhere. These are really easy to use - just send them some serial text and away you go. I have one running on a Raspberry Pi and another displaying stats on my pc via some free software (AIDA64). Anyhoo, you can find these for under $25 shipped and they look quite nice, both the display itself and also the case which is a nice polished black. I have located the documentation and a config utility that allows you to set a few things (baud rate, local power on message etc). Just figured that I'd toss this out there in case anyone is interested. I have no affiliation with the eBay seller (and there are many anyways) - but this one is currently the cheapest at $22 shipped. ELO VFD Rear Facing Customer Display USB E-Series ESYxxE2x | eBay <https://www.ebay.com/itm/257008164958?_skw=elo+E122426&itmmeta=01KCHB6T4BB3W5ETK8TVREWRPA&hash=item3bd6e1605e:g:KPQAAeSwGfRobWkM&itmprp=enc%3AAQAKAAAA0FkggFvd1GGDu0w3yXCmi1cgW5R4UkxuedjF3ReKh7oTdIyngrH7MjSjS2dcqq%2FemWsl4tjAkKz5XgfVwkjb8VGINyNj9dO3KDnBHb5zNEza%2BzoI%2BJYv9BCePeR988R6%2FSAvZZi5b6lpfHBEUjXGXyuCJYyX1%2Br7TEg4jVZcesEby9PF1BMcNq3hXOtn%2BVZ6yV050RCKa9ppzjZj8T8JK5bIYN4%2F00bcCwY2E5m1MKiZ1IF5bbsRqLO4c2l2PMoqo%2FdHDGPvNS%2Fb5zESxqasLSU%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR6aim6vkZg> [image: VFD.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 [email protected]. To view this discussion, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/4fc68d81-8d51-4159-bfa3-a24807bd0bd1n%40googlegroups.com.
