Want a little nibble? Then these BCD switches are a real treat to have around! I bring out Big Iron and power up a Nixie to demonstrate how easy and fun these little guys are. Enjoy!
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How does the nixie display work?
Hi Fran. Just stumbled into your video on a nixie tube, I love nixie tubes. They are so beautiful. I found a nixie tube clock on Amazon this last year. It works great. I will have to check into getting some of those cool switches. Very cool. Anyway have a very Merry Christmas and hope all is well. Take care. 🙂
I used BCD switches when I designed the "SuperSCAF" audio filter published in QST April 1986. The BCD switches set the upper and lower bandpass filter cutoff frequencies. Thank you for describing nibbles! In my early days I designed a 4-bit CPU using AMD bit-slice components… it was a "Nibble" processor programmed as a combination lock!
Oh wow, nibble.. or nybble. I haven't heard that from someone else's mouth since my father described bits, nybbles, bytes, and integers to myself and another brother or two back in the early 1970's. Dad worked on S.A.G.E. and for IBM FSD all of his life.
Binary Coded Decimals………..
"Big Iron" love it
All true tube amps come equipped with big iron
I watched the video then bought 20 BCD switches. Now I need a project!
Super-cool. The computer term "register" makes more sense knowing the electromechanical background (as in needing to register a number before it gets fed into the next piece of gear). And I, too, have always loved the term "nibble". 😊 Finally, thanks for the chisel tips! (No pun intended.)
Very interesting….nibbles sounds similar to nipples…..which one I love more? 😎
with a 74hc164 counter (for example) it would have been fun and even with that the count only goes one way
Poetic electric mmm
I worked for Ferranti computers as a youngster, I’ve seen and many of those in my work life.
huh…
so… that's where the design of the galactic empire logo comes from… o.0