Neon bulb logic elements link?

Dwight K. Elvey dwight.elvey at amd.com
Wed May 25 17:57:21 CDT 2005


>From: "Tom Jennings" <tomj at wps.com>
>
>On Wed, 25 May 2005, Eric Smith wrote:
>
>>> sustain around 80V.  [...]   You could probably make a coincident-voltage
>>> memory from them... but they'd be slow I think, but pretty.
>>
>> Sounds like a fun project!
>>
>> Lessee...  If the numbers are 80V and 100V...
>
>Actually, it might be easy enough to be fun. There aren't many
>storage method that are direct-readout of all cells! (It would
>make a display too).
>

Hi
 Hp made a counter tube using several electrodes. The idea
was that there was only enough current to keep one electrode
at a time lit. It might be more practical to make a storage
element with multiple electrodes instead of depending on
matching several NE-2's.
Dwight




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