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pIn the days before digital number readouts (we’re talking 1950s and ’60s) electronic devices that needed to display changing numbers used nixie tubes, which were little cathode tubes filled with a stack of individual, tiny neon lights shaped like the numbers 0 through 9. A HREF=”http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/nixietube” Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories/A got their hands on one of these and ripped it open to show you the cool guts./p

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pThe limitations of the technology are obvious–numbers further back in the stack appeared fainter than those up front, and the skinny “1” is double-tubed to produce the illumination required for legibility–but the aesthetic value of the fonts is awfully elegant. Check out the full tear-down A HREF=”http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/nixietube” here/A.br /
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