Is this a coincidence or what?

[Dekatron42]

Could this book have something to do with the naming of Nixies?

https://www.etsy.com/listing/85929141/vintage-childrens-dog-book-the-four

The title is: "Pixie, Dixie, Trixie, and Nixie" and it is written by Dorothy and Marguerite Bryan and supposedly published in 1950. Burroughs made a Pixie tube, a Trixie socket for the Pixie tube and also Nixies, however I haven't heard of a Dixie though.

/Martin

[Dan Harboe Burer]

Don’t you store your “Tiger Rags” in a “Dixie tube” ? I’m dissapointed.

 

(Sorry I just couldn’t resist creating this pun)

 

Dan

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[Instrument Resources of America]

My understanding regarding the name Nixie is that the official tubes were known as 'N'umerical 'I'ndicator Tubes. The N from numerical and the I from indicator became the "NI" of the word NIxie.    Ira.

[Jon D.]

My understanding is NIXIE = Numerical Indicator eXperimental - 1: NIX-I or NIXIE

[Instrument Resources of America]

That would be correct!!   Ira.

On 2/28/2016 12:58 PM, Jon D. wrote:

My understanding is NIXIE = Numerical Indicator eXperimental - 1: NIX-I or NIXIE

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[Dekatron42]

I've heard of a lot of explanations for the name Nixie, like the ones above, but I have never seen it written in any Burroughs document and since it is quite common to use ordinary words and fit a project or product name to that word I thought it might be possible that people working at Burroughs had heard this story and then decided to use those words for products. It would be nice if some document could pop up that someone who was involved at Burroughs had written on this subject!

/Martin

[John Rehwinkel]

> I've heard of a lot of explanations for the name Nixie, like the ones above, but I have never seen it written in any Burroughs document and since it is quite common to use ordinary words and fit a project or product name to that word I thought it might be possible that people working at Burroughs had heard this story and then decided to use those words for products. It would be nice if some document could pop up that someone who was involved at Burroughs had written on this subject!

It might be hiding in a Haydu document.

- John

[A. Nonamus]

I think it would be in a Burroughs document. Didn't we find that Burroughs bought Haydu for their manufacturing capacity, and that the Nixie development began at Burroughs before that acquisition?