Herrings In - a reprise

[gareth evans]

AS of this morning, the Nixie brand are back in Lidl, tomato, peppery and others; you just have to sort through the box

[Clive Arthur]

They used to do salmon in the same style, but I haven't seen that for probably a few years.

[Brian]

We are off out shortly but I will call in to the local Lidl on the way back and see if they have any.

[Dave W]

The Nixe brand never went away in my Epsom Lidl.

[Brian Gaff]

Did they not make display tubes?

Brian

[Dave W]

Nixie tubes were certainly a thing, but I don't know if they were made by a firm called Nixie.

[Bob Eager]

"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."

[Tim Lamb]

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.

[gareth evans]

Any connection with the Neon tropical fish? :-)

[phister]

I used dekatrons for my pulse counters.