Octal

[Chuck Guzis]

On 9/2/2006 at 12:36 AM ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk wrote:

>Does anyone else remmeber the 8 and 9 segment displays used by (IIRC) 
>Sharp in the early 1970s. They were vacuum flourescnet, single digit to 
>an envelope, made by Itron (IIRC). The segments were curved, and you got 
>much more natural-looking digits than from a 7 segment straight-bar 
>display. Of course the problem that 2 rapidly alternating digits can look 
>like something totally different remains.

I still have a Sharp calculator that uses those.  The "6" looks too weird
to me to be readable.

Cheers,
Chuck