Here we are, last few minutes of 2016!
I have been trough so much this year! Ups and downs, good periods and bad moments! One of the few great things of this 2016 was you guys, all of you! I found in SLMS a place where to feel at home, a group of nice people first, a group of friend later, brothers and sisters at last! All of you helped me to get up when I need it and gave me new energy to survive London!
Happy New year to all @members
And a BIG THANK YOU to all of you!
I wish you the best for this new year!
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Happy New Year @stefanoromano, been a great year for SLMS for sure…
Courty
Nice post @stefanoromano ! Happy new year to all of you from Stockholm 
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Thanks for doing so much for the space @stefanoromano!!
And every one else!!
Happy freakin new year!!
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Trying to come up with a nixiy new year joke , but everything I come up with is to filthy for discorse.
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Happy new year people
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Really nice nixie clock. I have a small mullard CRT. A DG7 type. Can’t decide whether to build a CRT clock or a valve oscilloscope.
Happy new year!!!
Or a very small memory stick.
I have no idea what that thing is but it’s really cool!
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It’s a clock @Beth but it’s made out of old Cold War Russian military display tubes !
Courty
How did you get those?
Never you mind.
Seriously though, on the subject of the Williams tube, there was another type of cathode ray tube that was used as an analogue to digital converter.
As a youth I had an absolute fascination with valve electronics and I used to get old valves from a TV repair shop and try to get them to work. I was sometimes successful, sometimes not. In hindsight my biggest success was not killing myself with my mains derived HT set ups.
Anyway, a few (a lot) of years older and wiser, I’m getting back into valve electronics again. I have two Telequipment S31 valve oscilloscopes (same one I had when i was 16) and I’m planning on getting them going. Currently building a capacitor reformer to aid this aim.
Beth, to answer your question, Nixie tubes were used in a lot of electronic equipment up to the mid 70s. They were used in anything that nowadays would have an LED or LCD display, like cash registers and adding machines for example. They were also used in British military equipment, not just Russian. A lot of Russian ones came on the market after they pulled down the Berlin Wall (remember that? My son is doing his history degree and studying it, I said that’s not history I friggin’ remember it…).
Toodle Pip.
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So at 16 I had a room full of old out of date electronics and a permanently hot soldering iron. And to think I wondered why I didn’t have a girlfriend.
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You are very GUAPO!
I have absolutely no idea what that means, but it sounded marvellous. So thank you.
Essentially you just called me what I believe in English the young people refer to as a geek. So thanks again. I definitely was/am/shall ever be.
Aw sorry to disappoint you, but that was for my dear friend Stefano! (Google translate is good enough for guapo)