Re: [neonixie-l] Re: 1970s Minitron Project?

[Nick]

On Tuesday, 8 August 2017 20:00:20 UTC+4, iavine wrote:
>
> Cheers for those Nick,
>
> got to love those 1970's PCBs. Very rounded and, er, blobby. They follow 
> the illustration style of the time.
>

For those of us who are UK-based and of that era, "hoopy" is a word that 
springs to mind (HHGTTG).

Just reading those volumes again bought back so many memories - I still get 
Elektor - got crates of them around - they do a reasonable amount of nixie 
stuff.

Ho, hum...

Nick 

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[neonixie-l] Re: 1970s Minitron Project?

[Nick]

Elektor has been around since about 1965 - enormously popular - used to be 
all analogue but recently has become pretty much all digital/uP. They 
publish annual compendiums of all their circuits, including the bumper 
Summer editions which can have up to 100 projects. The main difference 
between Elektor and the others is that everything they print is lab tested 
by their own engineers - the PCB designs are also done by them (from the 
authors' originals).

Enormously popular in Europe and elsewhere - they publish in French, 
German, Dutch & English and sell in 50 countries - about 125,000 
copies/month.

There have also been about 12 annual circuit book - they're call "301 
Circuits", "302 Circuits" etc. They are a great resource for analogue ideas 
- each one contains 100s of tested ideas..

A year or so ago they published a bit about unusual valves and borrowed a 
load of trochotrons etc. from me.

Cheers

Nick



On Wednesday, 9 August 2017 15:48:52 UTC+4, Terry S wrote:
>
> Wow, thanks for introducing me to Elektor. I wish I'd known about that 
> magazine back in the day. A ton of great projects.
>
> Terry
>

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[neonixie-l] Re: 1970s Minitron Project?

[Terry S]

Wow, thanks for introducing me to Elektor. I wish I'd known about that 
magazine back in the day. A ton of great projects.

Terry

On Tuesday, August 8, 2017 at 11:59:39 PM UTC-5, Nick wrote:
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> That was my best guess - someone else's turn now...
>
> Nick
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[neonixie-l] Re: 1970s Minitron Project?

[Nick]

That was my best guess - someone else's turn now...

Nick

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[neonixie-l] Re: 1970s Minitron Project?

[Mitch]

Thanks, Nick. That one is close, but the one I'm looking for had a two 
digit display, and it was built on two breadboards. 


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Re: [neonixie-l] Re: 1970s Minitron Project?

['Ian Vine' via neonixie-l]

Cheers for those Nick,
got to love those 1970's PCBs. Very rounded and, er, blobby. They follow the 
illustration style of the time.
Ian
 

On Tuesday, 8 August 2017, 16:43, Nick  wrote:
 

 I think this may be the clock Elektor published in 1975 - it could use either 
Mintoron or LED displays.
I've uploaded the two copies of Elektor to the group's library at 
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B93DAeV7sPGsc1hfaTZrMG9ZS3c 
They're in directory: NEONIXIE-L > Project Designs (clocks, etc.) > Elektor TTL 
Minitron Clock 1975
The TTL clock is in the 1975-09 (September) edition, page 918 and it uses the 
previously published Minitron/LED "Universal display" from the 1975-02 
(February) edition, page 223.
HTH
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[neonixie-l] Re: 1970s Minitron Project?

[Nick]

I think this may be the clock Elektor published in 1975 - it could use 
either Mintoron or LED displays.

I've uploaded the two copies of Elektor to the group's library at 
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B93DAeV7sPGsc1hfaTZrMG9ZS3c  


They're in directory: *NEONIXIE-L > Project Designs (clocks, etc.) > 
Elektor TTL Minitron Clock 1975*

The TTL clock is in the 1975-09 (September) edition, page 918 and it uses 
the previously published Minitron/LED "Universal display" from the 1975-02 
(February) edition, page 223.

HTH

Nick

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[neonixie-l] Re: 1970s Minitron Project?

[Mitch]

>
> Thanks, John. The clock definitely used 7400 series logic. I remember 
> soldering in the chips without sockets because I couldn't afford them at 
> the time. 
>

I'll keep looking. 

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