Neon bulb logic elements link?

[Jim Battle]

Tom Jennings wrote:

> 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).

That is exactly the storage mechanism of the orange plasma display 
panels used by the Plato terminals.  I'm sure the individual cells of a 
panel tracked each other quite well as compared to an assortment of a 
few hundred thousand neon lamps.