Neon bulb logic elements link?

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On Wed, 25 May 2005, Jim Battle wrote:

> 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.

Ok, I'm sold.  How do I find one of these terminals?

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