Seven Segment Displays

[woodelf]

Marvin Johnston wrote:

>I have eight NOS seven segment displays in a 16 pin DIP package. These
>displays have a glass cover and each of the segments have a wire running
>between the two contacts. The only markings I see are "Japan" and
>"3015-5" on the back and "C-27-09" on the side. My suspicion is that
>they are incandescent but I haven't found any information on them yet
>using Google. Does anyone know what these things are called?
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look around here as they have pictures of several older display devices.

> http://www.sphere.bc.ca/test/nixies.html#catalog