AS of this morning, the Nixie brand are back in Lidl, tomato, peppery and others; you just have to sort through the box
Herrings In - a reprise
May 05, 2023
Last reply: 3 years ago
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They used to do salmon in the same style, but I haven't seen that for probably a few years.
We are off out shortly but I will call in to the local Lidl on the way back and see if they have any.
The Nixe brand never went away in my Epsom Lidl.
Did they not make display tubes?
Brian
Nixie tubes were certainly a thing, but I don't know if they were made by a firm called Nixie.
"The name Nixie was derived by Burroughs from "NIX I", an abbreviation of "Numeric Indicator eXperimental No. 1",[6] although this may have been a backronym designed to justify the evocation of the mythical creature with this name."
Ha! As an apprentice, I spent 6 weeks in my firms instrument test dept. They had created a numeric indicator which had an illuminated numbered section of photographic film instead of a dial and indicator needle.
I think they called it a *digivisor*. My job was to calibrate the things. They suffered a number of defects and were quickly wiped out by Nixie tubes and their ilk.
Any connection with the Neon tropical fish? :-)
I used dekatrons for my pulse counters.
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