Computer speedometers

[Chuck Guzis]

On 10/19/2005 at 4:32 PM Julian Wolfe wrote:

>Alright, so I'm getting carried away, but why not?  It's my computer :)

Well sure, why not?  If you had an all static-CMOS MPU, you could even take
one of those big rheostats used for stage lighting and hook it up to a VFO
to provide a variable clock to your CPU.  "Captain, if I turn it up any
higher, it'll blow for sure!".

Didn't a couple of Honeywell mainframes use bar-graph Nixie tubes to show
various system parameters?

Cheers,
Chuck