[neonixie-l] Very much off-topic

2023-04-08 Thread martin martin
You've heard this one before.. While cleaning the garage, I found this. Probably built in the very late 70s. Uses three 74154 decoders as counters for a near-simulation of a classic roulette game. The design was to let a large cap discharge to "see" the ball slow down. Enjoy the 70s madness!

[neonixie-l] Re: Nixies in cash register from 1973

2023-04-08 Thread newxito
Exactly, the idea was to speed up checkouts in supermarkets and automate warehousing. And even back then, they already had the "crazy" idea of connecting customers to the products they bought by giving them a card with this funny code. Creepy... Tomislav Cordazzo schrieb am Samstag, 8. April

Re: [neonixie-l] Re: Neonixie Spam Messages

2023-04-08 Thread Audrey
For more* On Sat, Apr 8, 2023, 2:04 PM Audrey wrote: > Or maybe it's just the recent widespread access to GPT models allowing > forore convincing spam... > > On Sat, Apr 8, 2023, 1:57 PM Robert G. Schaffrath < > robert.schaffr...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I don't think it is just Group but with

Re: [neonixie-l] Re: Neonixie Spam Messages

2023-04-08 Thread Audrey
Or maybe it's just the recent widespread access to GPT models allowing forore convincing spam... On Sat, Apr 8, 2023, 1:57 PM Robert G. Schaffrath < robert.schaffr...@gmail.com> wrote: > I don't think it is just Group but with Google overall. I use Gmail and I > noticed a large uptick in

Re: [neonixie-l] Re: Neonixie Spam Messages

2023-04-08 Thread Robert G. Schaffrath
I don't think it is just Group but with Google overall. I use Gmail and I noticed a large uptick in legitimate messages appearing in the SPAM folder. I used to have to check it once every two days or so but now it is flagging many things I consider innocuous. As some others posts have noted,