[Milsurplus] Milsurplus Digest, Vol 235, Issue 44

[Brooke Clarke]

Hi Eugene:

1954.
I've updated my NCR web page to add more detail on Nixie tubes.
https://prc68.com/I/NCR.shtml#Nixie

PS Stop Clocks, like the Standard Electric Time Co. S-1-24 Timer were used for the atomic bomb tests.
https://prc68.com/I/SETC_S-1-24.shtml

PPS The British could break the 3-rotor Enigma machine using only a crib, but not the 4-rotor Enigma used in German 
subs.  NCR developed a machine to do that.  But it required electronic switching elements on the high speed axles, 
rather than a mostly mechanical approach that he British used.  So most of the patents on the NCR page are for tubes 
that can count very fast.  In fact two of the patents shown in the Nixie box for Burroughs are counters rather than 
displays.  I'm guessing Buroughs was making computers in the 1950s that used them.
https://prc68.com/I/NCR.shtml

-- 
Have Fun,

Brooke Clarke
https://www.PRC68.com
axioms:
1. The extent to which you can fix or improve something will be limited by how well you understand how it works.
2. Everybody, with no exceptions, holds false beliefs.

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> Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2023 21:32:52 +0000
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> Anyone know when the first nixie was manufactured or marketed?
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> 73 Eugene W2HX
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