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Build A Nixie Tube Clock

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the electrocution-risk-provides-added-excitement dept.

J Aldridge writes: "People are still using Nixie tubes. Their warm glow seems to be the digital equivalent of the warm sound of vacuum amplifiers. One person has constructed a tube wristwatch."

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  1. Pixie tubes by teasea · · Score: 1, Funny

    I love 'em. Just pure sugar though.

  2. hey by Joe+the+Lesser · · Score: 2, Funny

    Tube clocks? Weren't those out of style in the 80's?

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  3. Gee, sounds about as useful as a... by khaladan · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...computer made out of vacuum tubes.

    Oh wait, that did end up being kind of useful :)

    Hurray for old tube things.

  4. Woohoo! by trivialproductions · · Score: 3, Funny

    I can now finish my Goldfinger-style atom bomb!