Gregory's ServerRemembering those times as a kid when I'd see a non 7-segment-number component on a liquid crystal display, and I'd wonder if it was even legal.
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@barrowofdirt @NanoRaptor I recall IrDA in tamagotchi using a similar icon meaning general "connection" :p 
Matteꙮ Italia
@NanoRaptor also, seeing some of them always off and wondering what mysterious functions turned them on 
PhilipKing
@cvtsi2sd @NanoRaptor Discovering as an adult that they bought in displays and just used the symbols they needed. 
Foxotronic
@cvtsi2sd with calculators and multimeters it's either a function you'd get with the next pricier model; or, back in the day, some manufacturers hadn't custom designed displays, instead they used standartised ones – there could be no use at all in that case. 
Bart
@NanoRaptor you know you made it if your digital watch used lcd segments to display analog time. Ultimate flex. 
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@bartreardon @NanoRaptor 
SnowFox
@NanoRaptor For me it was VFDs. I could tell the VCR’s display wasn’t LCD or LED, but nobody seemed to know what it was and I had no idea what to search for.   |
@NanoRaptor I wonder if there's an art there that is slowly dying.