Grampa, Tell Me About Old Displays
- Category: History
Grampa, Tell Me About Old Displays
"OK, I'm no Grampa, but I do relish old display technology. Everything today is LED, LCD, LCD, LED, or LCD. Boring. Let's have a look at displays from a more interesting time.
There's no denying Nixie's coolness factor. Let's start there, as most of you have probably seen them somewhere. Each digit in a Nixie display is a thin-formed wire electrode. The tube is filled with neon, and works on the same principle as a simple neon lamp. There's something hypnotic about watching a changing Nixie, as the display plane is different for each digit."
