I have no idea. It looks like it's from the 1960s, and even though I grew up then, I don't have a clue as to what this thing is.
Anyone have any ideas?
WTF is it.jpg
I have no idea. It looks like it's from the 1960s, and even though I grew up then, I don't have a clue as to what this thing is.
Anyone have any ideas?
WTF is it.jpg
“The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."
--Philip K. Dick
Looks like a large-scale mock-up of some consumer device but I dunno about your dating it to the Sixties. That seven-segment digital read-out really didn't come along until the Seventies.
All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
They did have Nixie tubes back in the 1960's however, which did look quite similar and were segmented.Originally Posted by KJ6BSO
I keep my 2 feet on the ground, and my head in the twilight zone.
The figs look too close to each other to be nixie tubes. :)
Last edited by W9JEF; 12-29-2013 at 01:28 PM.
Good point, but Nixie tube are fairly large, relatively high-voltage devices and this appears to be a mockup of a handheld unit of some sort. It seems unlikely that the builder would have been able to use them.
Last edited by NQ6U; 12-29-2013 at 03:34 PM.
All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
Not all nixie tubes are large. In fact I have seen some that are pretty tiny. In fact I have to remind myself to jump on ebay and buy a few of them sometime soon. I would like to build a nixie clock or some other nixie counting device.
I keep my 2 feet on the ground, and my head in the twilight zone.
Looks like a blonde chick, to me.
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That's a blonde leaning up against a large scale mockup of a handheld device of some sort. If you look at the sliding switch below the meter with digits, there's a human stick figure. One of the symbols below that looks like a horseshoe magnet to me. It has a point like a pen or needle, maybe a medical device??? Some sort of syringe perhaps? I'm guessing it's large scale. If that's the actual size, I dunno.
No matter what it is, im guessing it wont fit. :shock:
I don't know, I went to school with a girl that...........well...........ah...........never mind.
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