Nixies as channel display in a very special TV-set with 4 CRTs from the 1960s
astroschmidt
I just stumbled upon the "Nordmende Spectra Color Studio"
TV-set build from the mid 1960s to the early 1970s.
It had one kind of "master-monitor" and 3 separate, smaller
monitors below so that you could watch 4 TV-programs siltunaeously
(or 3 TV-programs and 1 CCTV).
Germany at that time had only 3 programs :-)
It used a nixie-tube at each monitor to show which program was selected.
The first version had "only" B/W-CRTs for the secondary
displays, while the later version had also colour CRTs for the
smaller sub-monitors. Must have been one of the most complicated
electronics of an analog TV-set ever.
It weighed between 70 and 80 kg and has cost araound 5000 DM at that
time, which was a fortune. Around the yearly loan of a simple
workman!
Advertisements for
it: https://www.nordmende.eu/de/die-marke/kultprodukte/spectra-color-studio/
YouTube-videos about both versions (some in German):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zguALq2-2JA (TV and nixies in action)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtPddykldFU (at 15:30 the TV and nixies in action)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=picmP5-MknY (this is the all.colour version, which seems to have already 7-segment LED-displays as channel indicator)
You find more information (most of them in German) when googling "Nordmende Spectra Color Studio"
Enjoy
Roger
Nicholas Stock
On Aug 31, 2026, at 15:08, 'astroschmidt' via neonixie-l <neoni...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
I just stumbled upon the "Nordmende Spectra Color Studio" TV-set build from the mid 1960s to the early 1970s.
It had one kind of "master-monitor" and 3 separate, smaller monitors below so that you could watch 4 TV-programs siltunaeously (or 3 TV-programs and 1 CCTV).
Germany at that time had only 3 programs :-)It used a nixie-tube at each monitor to show which program was selected.
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The first version had "only" B/W-CRTs for the secondary displays, while the later version had also colour CRTs for the smaller sub-monitors. Must have been one of the most complicated electronics of an analog TV-set ever.
It weighed between 70 and 80 kg and has cost araound 5000 DM at that time, which was a fortune. Around the yearly loan of a simple workman!
Advertisements for it: https://www.nordmende.eu/de/die-marke/kultprodukte/spectra-color-studio/YouTube-videos about both versions (some in German):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zguALq2-2JA (TV and nixies in action)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtPddykldFU (at 15:30 the TV and nixies in action)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=picmP5-MknY (this is the all.colour version, which seems to have already 7-segment LED-displays as channel indicator)
You find more information (most of them in German) when googling "Nordmende Spectra Color Studio"
Enjoy
Roger
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