[Boatanchors] Help me ID an old digital display

[Rob Atkinson]

I don't know anything about that counter but from your description it
reads like a vacuum fluorescent display with a tinted window in front
of it to make it purple.  I can't see why they would want that though.

73
Rob
K5UJ

On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 5:53 PM Keith Densmore <ve3gem at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> About 40 years ago I bought a surplus unworking frequency counter made
> perhaps in the 1970's. A very heavy unit like they all were at the time. It
> was a Beckman counter Aor Universal Counter (don't know the model) but what
> was unique about it was the display. By my sketchy memory it was a blue or
> purplish display not very brilliant but more like a passive lcd display. I
> was thinking about it the other day and had a look on the internet on early
> digital displays but never saw anything quite like it.
> Any of you folks remember a display something like that that could help
> solve an old mystery?
> Thanks, 73,
> Keith ve3gem
>