Nixie tubes were used in many electronic products such as petrol pumps, military equipment and early electronic desktop calculators.
"Some of the early projects were working with computers to handle formulation calculations (mind you in 1974, a calculator was 1/2 half the size of a shoebox, and the display was
nixie Tubes)," he recalled.
Heck, back in the 1960s, when I was reading Elmer Keith and Jack O'Connor, all those giants of gun writing were struggling with antique first-generation machines that had paper start/stop screens with wires embedded in them and readouts on
nixie tubes that had to be converted through printed tables to obtain velocities.
The unusual clock comes in three models: a standard desk-top LED Ramos (100 pounds) in sustainably-harvested birch box; a vertically mounted teak clock with USSR-style
nixie tubes for around 200 pounds; and the custom-made version (to your own warped specifications) starting at around 500 pounds.
The clock showed time, in digital fashion, with a series of six
nixie tubes. Those, for the tech-trivia impaired, were a 1950s era digital display device that predated the LCDs and LEDs in common use today.
If you have a touch of gray in what is left of your hair, you will remember the old
Nixie tubes flashing their bright red numbers on many display panels.