Seen these before?

[Nicholas Stock]

Nick

[Audrey]

Woah!

On Mon, Aug 21, 2023, 10:02 PM Nicholas Stock <nick...@gmail.com> wrote:

Nick

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[Jon]

Guessing they might've been used in petrol (gasoline) pump price displays? I have a childhood memory of watching what I now know to be a numitron display on the pump with a 1/2 oscillating on and off as the total mounted. Back when a 1/2p was actually a relevant concept with a physical coin too...

Jon.

On Tuesday, August 22, 2023 at 3:02:39 AM UTC+1 Nicholas Stock wrote:

Nick

[gregebert]

The joke here in the US is that gasoline has been priced at  xxx.9 cents per gallon for as long as I can remember, which makes the ".9" financially meaningless, though it's believed by marketing dorks that there is a perception that a gallon of gas costing 4.999 is a lot cheaper than 5.00 .

[Nick Andrews]

Yes,  it's idiotic.  Pretty much any time I hear some fool comment "gas is 4.99 there" I have to say no,  it's five bucks. 

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[Terry Kennedy]

On Tuesday, August 22, 2023 at 4:29:52 AM UTC-4 Jon wrote:

Guessing they might've been used in petrol (gasoline) pump price displays? I have a childhood memory of watching what I now know to be a numitron display on the pump with a 1/2 oscillating on and off as the total mounted. Back when a 1/2p was actually a relevant concept with a physical coin too...

Up until around 5 years ago, my local cheap gas / truck stop place still used Numitron displays on their diesel pumps. Some time between then and now they upgraded them to LCD displays to match the gasoline pumps.

In various out-of-the-way places in the US there are still digit-wheel type pumps with handwritten signs under the glass saying things like "Multiply displayed price by 5". In more populated areas the Weights & Measures ("scale police") people normally won't certify those.

[Terry S]

I think these may have been used in market scales. Some items sold by the 1/2 pound.