Re: Nixie clocks: possibly an AH clock?

Fortitudo Dei wrote: 
Understand that many of the nixie tubes come from
Russia now.



This is possibly a throw-back to the cold-war era. One reason (so they
say...) that Russia has kept manufacturing vacuum-tube / valve devices (and
developing smaller and more complex versions for the military) is that
"tubes" are much less affected by the electromagnetic pulse created by a
thermo-nuclear explosion compared to solid-state devices. Someone I know in
Hungary who got a brief look at the innards of a Mig-29 said the aircraft
was full of them.

If someone's interested and has engaged me in a conversation beyond trivial length on the subject, this is something I always point out when that someone asks me why I wear mechanical wristwatches. :)
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