7 Segment display

xoxoxoBruce · 06-28-2015, 10:30 PM

I had limited contact with electronics, beyond consumer level, before the eighties. I'd seen Nixie tubes but I don't remember seeing seven segment displays before calculators and consumer electronics made them ubiquitous.

Of course they're everywhere now but I was surprised they were patented in 1908. Seems they played out of town doing Summer Stock, Reparatory and maybe the Borsht Belt, paying their dues before they hit the big-time.

06-28-2015, 10:30 PM	#1
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	7 Segment display I had limited contact with electronics, beyond consumer level, before the eighties. I'd seen Nixie tubes but I don't remember seeing seven segment displays before calculators and consumer electronics made them ubiquitous. Of course they're everywhere now but I was surprised they were patented in 1908. Seems they played out of town doing Summer Stock, Reparatory and maybe the Borsht Belt, paying their dues before they hit the big-time. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

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