http://www.sanotebooks.com A vintage (1978) Heathkit Alarm Clock, using very rare BECKMAN Pixie Gas Tube Displays. This particular model is in good cosmetic condition, but requires some repair to be 100%.
Beckman, Sperry, and others made these planar gas-discharge tubes that are sometimes called Panaplex displays. Pixie tubes are a different thing: a early-1950's predecessor to nixie tubes consisting of a flat display surface on the top of a tube through which cutouts of numbers are illuminated from below by ionized neon gas.
Beckman, Sperry, and others made these planar gas-discharge tubes that are sometimes called Panaplex displays. Pixie tubes are a different thing: a early-1950's predecessor to nixie tubes consisting of a flat display surface on the top of a tube through which cutouts of numbers are illuminated from below by ionized neon gas.
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