Another addition to the series of unusual digital displays, this General Electric bedside clock has its feet set in two different worlds. Lets take a closer look... and Enjoy!
Telechron rotor date codes - http://telechronclock.com/page20.html
Dialight Neon Conversion Display - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXU2XjLUyrQ
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Telechron rotor date codes - http://telechronclock.com/page20.html
Dialight Neon Conversion Display - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXU2XjLUyrQ
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What if it was not red neon bulb ? If it was a bulb that emitted UV, so the red letters glowed ?
(ɷ◡ɷ) Haha. What a funny clock, almost like ASCII box. Charset
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I can't find the video for the complicated neon tech lights.
Wow-those "digits" were more complex than I expected-the hours serving double duty was awesome!
Nice video Fran 😊😊
Growing up, my dad had this clock with white non-LED'esque digits. The light didn't work either.
I had a clock very similar to this in '75 except it used flip cards for the standard, roughly Helvetica, white numbers on a black background.
But I never saw anything like this fake LED display.
Only that plastic overlay they had in the stores to suggest what the display would look like once it was actually plugged in that you pulled off as soon as you got it.
A real puzzle!
I think the slightly blurry print of the red digits may have been meant to suggest a glow.
Neat!
I had this exact clock on my bedside as a kid! I was constantly hitting the "snooze" button on the top, so I actually hardwired a toggle switch in the back to disable that button. On school days, I would leave it disabled, but would enable it for weekends. 😀
Oh, I like that .
The serrations on the top of the light pipe looks like a fresnel lens cross section to avoid hot spots in the resulting illumination.
Highly enjoyable. I always enjoy watching you fix gadgets.
It's surgery time again! With forceps and a scalpel, and anaesthetic too (if that's how you could call unplugging). What a lovely clock – that's a curious display twist indeed.
It's like someone made it look like 7-segment without ever seeing a real one
Someone had fun designing that! The construction quality looks really good too.