kinda sorta maybe OT: Nixie tube display wristwatch

[Scott Stevens]

On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 12:51:59 -0800 (PST)
Tom Jennings <tomj at wps.com> wrote:

> I have the prototype. Maximum nerd cool. High voltage!
> Microprocessors!  50-year-old display tech! Wearable!
> 
> http://www.nixiewatch.com

It's cool and all, but the article says the Nixie tubes were stripped
from an H-P DVM.  I'm an old test-gear collector, and I'd hate for this
kind of thing to kick off a frenzy of people making 'novelty' items by
destroying old test equipment.

Are there Nixie tubes still in production?  If so, cool and
all-power-to-it.  If not, let's be cautious in our enthusiasm.  This is
a 'core-plane wall-hanging' type thing for some of us.