[sdiy] scopes

[Magnus Danielson]

From: metasonix <metasonix at earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: [sdiy] scopes
Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2003 22:33:27 -0700

> >Better was an unfortunate choice of phrase. What I meant was "more
> >manufacturable". Can you see John Blacet and I hand painting hundreds of
> >little slides? Ouch!
> 
> Thanks---don't joke about that, someone might actually
> manufacture such a gizmo.
> 
> The interest in Optigans is so great, I heard a rumor 
> that some Asian firm might make an imitation Optigan....
> combine that with all the phony NOS tubes, the Moog
> module knockoffs, the Apple I knockoff, and Phil 
> Weingarten's Audion fakes, and I wonder how long before
> we see new slide rules and exact replicas of the Atari 2600...
> 
> (btw, the remains of Phil's tube parts, remember I pointed it out on
> eBay? It sold to a major tube collector for $1525. 
> No vacuum pump, no degassing equipment, just parts.)
> 
> I know a guy who is trying to make new Nixie tubes.....
> because, you see, there's all this interest among younger people
> in making Nixie clocks....

A while back there was a nice article in the IEEE Spectrum (for those of you
who don't know this paper, it is is a more light reading publication from IEEE
containing articles from the spectrum of areas where IEEE is involved plus
various features) about Nixie-tube clocks. The latest number contained a
re-take where one of the guys described his hurdles in building a Nixie-tube
clock-kit (which happends to use GPS no less!).

I want to build one too!

I already have a FPGA/LCD clock running from a single R6 battery (no GPS
thought).

The most impressive clock was however the Nixie-tube wrist-watch!

> We are going to relive the 1970s, over and over. Have you seen how
> teen girls dress now? Bellbottoms and platform shoes....

Teen girls? No man, not only them, not only them. I don't know about the US,
but here it goes higher up in age than "teenage".

> please, don't bring back the Osmonds or the Bay City Rollers.....agggh

Well, since you did ask for it...

> uncle eric
> metasonix.com

Uncle Magnus