[neonixie-l] Re: Story Time: How you got to the nixie hobby?

[Keith Moore]

Unlike most folks here, I do not have any background in electronics nor 
exposure to the electronics perspective of nixies and glowing tubes. 
However, I do go way back with nixies, too. I started as a computer 
software developer in the 1970's and worked on Burroughs systems for years. 
Burroughs machines had neon and nixies as part of their design. So through 
the lifespan of neon, nixies, numitrons, LEDs, LCD, VFD, TFT, etc, I have 
been interested in the glowing things and the progression of the 
technologies though this brief history of a few decades. 
I really didn't think a lot about nixies between about 1980-2010. In the 
early 2000's I thought it would be nice if I taught myself a bit about 
electronic. I figured it would be useful  or at least quench a curiosity.  
I started building B.E.A.M. toys and then progressed to doing on-the-chip 
gadgets the leveraged these amazing PIC and Atmel microcontrollers. I was 
really excited about the features these little chips had. And I started to 
experiment more and more learning ever so little about actual electronics, 
but a lot about these little ucontrollers. A few years later, I was talking 
with a friend about some of the self-teaching I was doing building tiny low 
voltage toys and robots. He is an LED display freak and he asked me if I 
knew about these things called dekatrons. I hadn't heard of them. So I 
looked into it and discovered that there was crossover into the old nixie 
work that I lived in decades ago. I couldn't believe (still cannot) that 
you can get such wonderful old display tubes and make them do amazing 
things like you all do here. I was hooked right there and then and got a 
kit from threeneurons and haven't looked back since (except to look back 
and buy more nixie stock and more projects). 

I have been a pied piper for preservation of old computer technologies and 
software for years (https://mediaarchaeologylab.com/) so I added to this my 
passion to preserve and demonstrate these great glowing devices. Thanks to 
all of you for the advice and inspiration over the past years! I still do 
not know electronics well but you all have made me feel welcome and 
continue to provide lots of meaningful fun/learning. 

 
@nixiekeith
http://www.glowtubeglow.com/ 

On Sunday, February 4, 2018 at 1:00:38 PM UTC-5, SWISSNIXIE - Jonathan F. 
wrote:
>
>
> I made this post to share my story how i found my way to nixie-tubes, and 
> i'm curious how everyone else came to this hobby :)
>
> My way to nixie tubes was a "double accidental". The very first encounter 
> with this type of tubes were around 2001 when i was around ~10-11 years 
> old, along my way to school there was a little local scrapyards, where me 
> and my friends used to go and collect all kind of materials for more and 
> less usefull constructions of electronic. One day we tear apart a old 
> calculator that had "strange looking number tubes" and we took a few of 
> them home, after a few tries to get them on with a lab power supply and the 
> few search request with the internet of that time didn't bring up anything 
> helpful, so the tubes ended up in a storage container, which ended back at 
> the scrap yard again..
> I never seen a vacuum or nixie tube again until 2013. At that time i 
> ordered a few GM-Tubes from a bulgarian seller on ebay, he put a few IN-12 
> as a gift in the package. I instantly remembered my old scrapyard find, and 
> started to reseach these type of tubes just for curiousity. From there on i 
> fell in love with the typical orange glow that instantly remains of "old 
> age" (from my point of lifespan :-) ) and just looks very beautiful. I 
> quickly discovered that there are alot of different types of nixie tubes 
> around, so i started collecting them. I also started to find out more about 
> old electronic technology, and started to collect all kind of vacuum tubes 
> and circuits. About a year in collecting tubes and stuff i noticed that i 
> will run out of space.. so i had to decide to only collect nixie tubes 
> since they don't take up to much space. Today, 5 years later I own around 
> 240 different types of nixies with around 600 tubes total.
>
> Im very interested in how you got to the tubes, since there are a lot of 
> people here that have seen encountered nixies when they still were a normal 
> electronic part and not something considered rare or collectible.
>
>

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Re: [neonixie-l] Re: Is this cool or what? Dalibor is up to no good ;-)

[Alex]

Seeing letters in a nixie (curvy) format is un-nerving in some way...
The artwork is described on the artists main website here it seems : 
http://dominicharris.com/simulated-2018/
This appears to essentially be a giant *n* letter word array, but with the 
letters limited to " S I M U L A T E D O"
Quite odd but certainly impressive, if just for how much money must of been 
sunk into it.
I would of just stuck at a 10 letter word myself, but maybe Dalibor had a 
minimum order ;-)
- Alex

On Tuesday, 6 February 2018 03:16:41 UTC, Jens Boos wrote:
>
> Yep, only ten each, I counted the wires in a few close-up photos. I am 
> also curious to learn more about this project.
>
> On 2/5/2018 8:14 PM, MichaelS wrote:
>
> Wow.  Thanks for sharing.  Curious to know what letters are in each tube, 
> since they're limited to 10(?)
>
> On Monday, February 5, 2018 at 6:57:02 PM UTC-6, Jens Boos wrote: 
>>
>> Have a look at this: https://www.instagram.com/p/BesJL6wAbwg/ 
>>
>> Cheers 
>> Jens 
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Re: [neonixie-l] Re: Is this cool or what? Dalibor is up to no good ;-)

[Nicholas Stock]

I think the more pressing question should be, could you fit 26 letters in
each tube.;-)

On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 1:12 PM, Alex  wrote:

> Seeing letters in a nixie (curvy) format is un-nerving in some way...
> The artwork is described on the artists main website here it seems :
> http://dominicharris.com/simulated-2018/
> This appears to essentially be a giant *n* letter word array, but with
> the letters limited to " S I M U L A T E D O"
> Quite odd but certainly impressive, if just for how much money must of
> been sunk into it.
> I would of just stuck at a 10 letter word myself, but maybe Dalibor had a
> minimum order ;-)
> - Alex
>
> On Tuesday, 6 February 2018 03:16:41 UTC, Jens Boos wrote:
>>
>> Yep, only ten each, I counted the wires in a few close-up photos. I am
>> also curious to learn more about this project.
>>
>> On 2/5/2018 8:14 PM, MichaelS wrote:
>>
>> Wow.  Thanks for sharing.  Curious to know what letters are in each tube,
>> since they're limited to 10(?)
>>
>> On Monday, February 5, 2018 at 6:57:02 PM UTC-6, Jens Boos wrote:
>>>
>>> Have a look at this: https://www.instagram.com/p/BesJL6wAbwg/
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Jens
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[neonixie-l] Re: Is this cool or what? Dalibor is up to no good ;-)

[Paul Andrews]

Its a mutilated modem museum

On Monday, February 5, 2018 at 7:57:02 PM UTC-5, Jens Boos wrote:
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> Have a look at this: https://www.instagram.com/p/BesJL6wAbwg/ 
>
> Cheers 
> Jens 
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Re: [neonixie-l] Re: Is this cool or what? Dalibor is up to no good ;-)

[Jon]

Lovely stuff. There are a lot of tubes involved in the project - if I 
understand the annotations correctly, there are 12 instances with 60 tubes 
and 12 with 10 - that's 840 tubes!

Something about the write-up on the website looks a bit strange... It 
claims that the artist fabricated the tubes - did he really go work in 
Dalibor's lab for a few months to learn and make them? Or did he just pay 
Dalibor to do it? In the latter case I think a slightly more accurate 
description is needed...

Jon.

On Tuesday, February 6, 2018 at 9:12:03 PM UTC, Alex wrote:

> The artwork is described on the artists main website here it seems : 
> http://dominicharris.com/simulated-2018/
>
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Re: [neonixie-l] Re: Is this cool or what? Dalibor is up to no good ;-)

[Mike Harrison]

On Tue, 6 Feb 2018 16:05:23 -0800 (PST), you wrote:

>Lovely stuff. There are a lot of tubes involved in the project - if I 
>understand the annotations correctly, there are 12 instances with 60 tubes 
>and 12 with 10 - that's 840 tubes!
>
>Something about the write-up on the website looks a bit strange... It 
>claims that the artist fabricated the tubes - did he really go work in 
>Dalibor's lab for a few months to learn and make them? Or did he just pay 
>Dalibor to do it? In the latter case I think a slightly more accurate 
>description is needed...

You must be new to the art world... 
Do you think Damien Hurst picked that shark himself ? 

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