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@teajaygrey @NanoRaptor Woz bought the Nixie watch after he saw my friend Ken wearing one. So did I. Ken and I were both volunteers at the Computer History Museum at the time, on the PDP-1 Restoration Project.
I only wear mine on special occastions.

15 June at 2:19 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodon.social
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@brouhaha yeah, tubes can be fragile. I have a DAP with vacuum tubes that I use sparingly because I don't want to deal with it breaking and having to repair or replace it.

Alex, the Director at the made.org had a four digit/tube Nixie clock at his house, but I imagine the wrist watch variants are more prone to wear and tear than something stationary.

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15 June at 2:24 | Open on rap.social
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@teajaygrey @NanoRaptor
When John and I took our custom Nixie tube RPN calculators to the calculator conference last year, I was worried enough that I wanted a sturdy transit case with lots of foam. John just packed his in his suitcase, surrounded by clothing. They both survived fine after the round trip.
It you haven't seen it, these are YUGE, with a 15-tube display using medium-sized tubes. Required a non-trivially sized transit case, and John's took up much of the space in a large suitcase.

15 June at 3:13 | Open on mastodon.social
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@teajaygrey @NanoRaptor
The new RPN calculators we're building this year might be even more fragile.

15 June at 3:14 | Open on mastodon.social
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@brouhaha rad! My dad was very into his RPN HP calculator. I may still have it in storage, but I was always more impressed by the 48 series HP calculators which seemed forever unaffordable to me.

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15 June at 3:15 | Open on rap.social
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@teajaygrey @NanoRaptor I really like the HP 28/48/49/50 series of RPL calculators very much, but I still am fond of their traditional RPN calculators.

15 June at 3:19 | Open on mastodon.social
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