12 Mar
2012
12 Mar
'12
12:20 p.m.
On 03/12/2012 03:11 PM, Henk Gooijen wrote:
I love displays as well. This is my current favorite, the HP 5082-7359:
http://www.neurotica.com/misc/HP5082-7359.jpg
Ceramic base, glass top, hermetically sealed, built like a tank, and
absolutely gorgeous.
Ah yes, those I have! The ones shown on the left side of the picture.
Both types, the grey-ish ones with transparant glass at the top and
the red ones at the bottom!
Nice! I have lots of great displays, which I don't have just to
"collect" them, I want to use them. My problem is thinking "wow, this
is a really special display, I need a really special project to put it
in!" ...then no project seems to be special enough. ;) So there they
sit, wasted, in anti-static boxes.
I really need to start using the special ones.
Personally,
those red dot-matrix displays are
very high on my list of great looking displays. CRTs are just one notch
higher :-)
What about the neat-looking amber electroluminescent panels that Planar
make? I always thought they looked cool.
And plasma displays... those are neat too :) 
I must admit, I searched for the FT-ONE displays, but
only found the
red ones plus the grey-ish ones. I did not know that I had those ...
time to spend some more time checking out all those little boxes.
Thanks for checking! The FT-ONE is one of my favorite transcievers,
but one of the little displays to the right has lost a segment.
It's...just not right. ;)
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA