[Laser] Nearing my wits end...

[KY1K]

Oatley electronics has 12 digit miniature displays with magnifier lens and 
diagram, model is D04 near the bottom of th epage.

http://www.oatleyelectronics.com/displays.html

Cost is 1 dollar each.

Art

At 08:44 PM 1/16/2005, you wrote:
>I would imagine this should be easy to find as it is 35+ year old technology
>used in watches, calculators, junky kids toys...
>
>However a day long search has resulted in nothing, thought I'd ask here...
>
>I am looking for the old miniature seven segment displays.  Round, only a
>fraction of an inch high.  What I need is a display in a roung package no
>more than 5/16" across.  Something in a package such as a passive IR sensor
>package with the display viewable through the window would be the best, but
>something in a modern T13/4 package or anything else will work....  I used
>to see them everywhere in the seventies, tossed a lot of them, some were
>nice open topped transistor looking things with eight pins on the base and a
>clear lens on top to view the charaters.  Usually there was a magnifying
>lens because the charater was so small.
>
>Ring any bells?  Any ideas?
>
>I found an example of what I'm looking for here:
>
>http://www.datamath.org/Display/Display.htm
>
>This link is even better:
>
>http://www.play-hookey.com/digital/experiments/seven_seg_led.html
>
>If you scroll down just a little bit there is an example of a three
>character unit, I'm looking for something like this but single character.
>
>Any help in finding this would be greatly appreciated!!!
>
>Kurt
>
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