Neon Logic

[William Donzelli]

> Then somebody had a brilliant idea. Down here, where the air ducts for the 
> return air from the air conditioner were, they put a bank of fluorescent lights 
> on each side of the machine. If the filaments were on, they were on, the machine 
> never had to run in the dark again. It never did. [Laughter] It never was afraid 
> of the dark again.

Western Electric did this trick with some of their phone gear (they used
quite a lot of gas tubes).

William Donzelli
aw288 at osfn.org