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Although parts are starting to wear. The card edge connectors are starting to make poor contact, and other stuff is just getting old.

But when it works, it works like a charm. I'd put my life on the data it produces. This device was brought to you by the White Engineers and Technicians at the Hewlett-Packard Company.

Although parts are starting to wear. The card edge connectors are starting to make poor contact, and other stuff is just getting old. But when it works, it works like a charm. I'd put my life on the data it produces. This device was brought to you by the White Engineers and Technicians at the Hewlett-Packard Company.

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[–] • 3 pts

If an engineer isn't White, I don't trust him. Him, as in, a biological male. White, male, engineer... The numbers on there... I don't remember the name of the counter. There's a Russian man who makes those by hand. Like, the whole process, all of the parts, even the glass tubes. I think it'll come if you search the number counter name on YouTube. Super cool process. Think he sells them as clocks now

[–] • 4 pts

The device itself is a HP3440A. The display tubes are Burroughs B5991 type NIXIE tubes.

[–] • 2 pts

It would be great if you could capture a few seconds of the nixie tubes flickering in action in a short video so the "young ones" here can see how cool they were. I haven't seen them in action in about 40 years.

[–] • 1 pt

Sounds right. NIXIE tubes. Thanks, bird!

[–] • 1 pt

Yep. Nixies are probably one of the most fascinating and cool display methods that we've ever come up with. Bottles full of gasses and fire and high voltages, all to display a number.