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This video is fun, heck watching you open this reminds me of opening stuff at Christmas as a kid
just a heads up, there are some 3d printable nixie sockets!
You counted those tubes like border patrol counting carrots full of marijuana.
Those tubes remind me of the kind of tech that dims the lights and heats the room. You always know it's doing something muscular and important.
You could build a 1×16 (and keep some spares, or build it larger) alphanumeric display emulating the classic hitachi LCD interface (or whatever interface)
would make a fancy large format/billboard display to put in the livingroom
This looks like a Sinclair ZX81!
That old computer is awesome. Do you really have a commodore 64?
I have a found a few really cool old radios I want to send you if you'd like them and I still want to check into that fototronic photographic line composing machine I wanted to talk to you about. It is extremely old and likely has some value or valuable parts. It certainly is rare because I can't find a picture of it anywhere online. It has to be a least 75 years old if not 100. The school house it is in was built in 1908. So we are talking up to 112 years old.
Build an 8-bit homebrew computer with the alphanumeric Nixies! Include an RTC in it, so it's default idle display can be a clock display. It could shift the clock around to different spots, to help prolong the tube life. I'd also love to see it be able to perform calculations, as a calculator, so that's another nice program that could be run on such a homebrew computer.
Some other ideas:
user aserta suggested displaying the distance of the Voyager probes.
could show subscriber counts.
if you have temp and humidity sensors, you could show those with the time.
Maybe have it display weather
Clock & Date display?
Congrats, you deserve it!
Fun stuff coming up
It would be awesome subscribers counter, very desirable for a youtuber. You could sell it at auction.
My first computer was a TI 99-4A (Texas Instruments). It was about the same class as the Sinclair but also had a cartridge slot for games, etc. Programs were still stored to cassette.