At last, the truth can be known! IEE internal documents sent in by a viewer who worked on developing the Nimo Tube tell the long and frustrating tale of its design, development, manufacture, and early promotion. Lets get to it!
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I always enjoy my visits to the FranLab. Keep up the excellent work Fran, as I'm sure you will.
Was the "Gumpy" name suggestion an homage to Don Gumpertz?
The proposed name "Gumpy" was certainly in honor of the inventor Mr Gumpertz.
Reviving an old thread to say I checked and Donald Gumpertz died in 2012 at the ripe old age of 93.
NIMO is my name, display is my game! Yeah, yeah, but what's the truth behind the display?
possible voice – multitrack head on tape loop, switch track for each digit.
Trust Fran 🙂
"Gumpy" Gumpertz?
I think "Cathod Igit" was supposed to be pronounced "Catho-digit". Which I really like as a name.
Abraham fuchs named it. he could have easily named it the FUCHS tube. He's more mature than I am for not making that choice lol
I wonder if the chronovoice works like very early talking clocks, concentric magnetic tape discs
It’s crazy to think how many of these tiny events can drastically change the world we live in, progress and the direction we head in is not as inevitable as some people (formally including me) think
Wow what I treat to see the inside of 1960 product campaign. Along with the inner geekdom. Thanks
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Happy New Year, Fran.Really enjoyed your video. Spent years working in high and ultra-high vacuum for semiconductor, high energy physics and analytical instruments. Pretty sure that the diffusion pump used to evacuate Nemo to HV was made by Varian. Probably the roughing pump, too.