Looking for Information about "Digicator" incandescent readouts

[Dieter Waechter]

Hi,
does anyone have information about "Digicator" incandescent readouts
made by Discon Coroporation?
Datasheets maybe?
See ad attached.
Best regards
Dieter

[Dave ZL3FJ]

https://archive.org/details/TNM_Digicator_electronic_numeric_readouts_series__20171110_0112/mode/2up
more data here-
DaveB, NZ

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[Dieter Waechter]

WONDERFUL!
Thank you so much!
Dieter

[David Forbes]

I have some data sheets. I'll see if I can scan them this weekend. 

[Dieter Waechter]

That would be great! Thanks you!
Regards
Dieter

[Toby Thain]

The ad on the right is interesting too. The CRT terminals TEC made used
vectors rather than a raster, which was a better fit to the hardware
options of the time.

Bitsavers has the brochure for their "Series 500 Data-Screen" , dated
December 1968. Its 8" or 12" screen could display up to 50 characters in
20 lines. It seems to have used core memory. I wonder if any survive.

--Toby

[David Forbes]

TEC was a Tucson company. I have lived there all my life. We had a TEC video terminal in the high school computer room where I spent way too many hours using it with the school district's DECsystem10 in the late seventies.

I found one at a surplus store in the nineties and owned it for a few years. It was a radter display. The memory was made of long shift registers. The terminal was dumb, in the sense that only the bottom row of the screen could be modified. It was fast, though. 

TEC folded about 1985 when the IBM PC destroyed its market niche.

[Nocrotec]

Hi to all,

I have 2 pcs. unfortunately 2 lamps defective - need to be replaced - here starting for $1 if someone is interested:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/334620149064

All the best

Dieter

[gregebert]

>  unfortunately 2 lamps defective

No surprise....Datasheet says lamp life was 400-600 hours, which is pretty horrible.

These otherwise look like fairly rugged units, so I'm surprised at the short lifetime of the bulbs.

My father worked on aircraft instruments, and bulb life was typically 100,000 hours. LEDs were very slow to replace incandescent bulbs because they lacked sunlight readability in a cockpit environment.

[Bill Notfaded]

I have some of these... the model 14 are the neatest... they're alpha numeric like some of our favorite tubes.  High intensity LEDs can be used to replace the bulbs.

Bill E.