NIMO...

[Nicholas Stock]

Were these ever a thing?

[Nicholas Stock]

Turns out there was!!

http://lampes-et-tubes.info/cd/cd080.php?l=e

[gregebert]

There was another twist on the NIMO tube that used an external deflection yoke to show multiple digits on a single line; I believe it 4 or 6 digits.

Never saw this 8x8 tube before; that must be one RARE device.

In order for a NIMO tube to display multiple lines of multiple characters (like a CRT), it would need a deflection yoke for X and Y direction.

I feel sad for the folks at IEE who put so much time and effort into the NIMO tube. It's technologically clever, but a colossal execution and marketing failure; it missed the market window by about 10 years.

[gregebert]

Heh-heh....I would gladly by a dozen at that price....

[Richard Scales]

There is a single unit on the bay right now in the UK.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/115535226656
Not my auction etc.
- Richard

[Richard Scales]

So sorry - the unit on the bay is the 'regular' single digit type NIMO tube.
- Richard

[gregebert]

Alas, I was quickly outbid, and there's another week to go.

The last time I saw a pair of NIMOs up for auction, the untested pair went for over 600 USD.

 Coincidentally, there is going to be a LOT of activity on my bench for the next 2 weeks with these 6-tube NIMO clock board sets, and I will post updates from mission control. There is 1 final wet dress rehearsal this weekend, and the countdown is on to fire-up 6 tubes.

[Duncan Townsend]

Not a NIMO-brand tube, but there's a soon-to-end Telefunken XM1000 on
eBay. https://www.ebay.de/itm/265885293184 (not my auction, no relation,
etc.)

--Duncan

On Wed, 21 Sep 2022, gregebert wrote:

> Alas, I was quickly outbid, and there's another week to go.
> The last time I saw a pair of NIMOs up for auction, the untested pair went
> for over 600 USD.
>
> Coincidentally, there is going to be a LOT of activity on my bench for the
> next 2 weeks with these 6-tube NIMO clock board sets, and I will post
> updates from mission control. There is 1 final wet dress rehearsal this
> weekend, and the countdown is on to fire-up 6 tubes.
>
> [image: IMG_0420.JPG]
>
> On Wednesday, September 21, 2022 at 9:56:29 PM UTC-7 Richard Scales wrote:
>
>> So sorry - the unit on the bay is the 'regular' single digit type NIMO
>> tube.
>> - Richard
>>
>> On Thursday, 22 September 2022 at 05:55:28 UTC+1 Richard Scales wrote:
>>
>>> There is a single unit on the bay right now in the UK.
>>> https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/115535226656

>>> <https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/115535226656?fbclid=IwAR3IALwcHyLAUptCye7RO4Rtq7gH1i_2eMszNnNxfPxDQo8-AbvWzyXYIBs>

>>> Not my auction etc.
>>> - Richard
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, 21 September 2022 at 23:38:38 UTC+1 gregebert wrote:
>>>
>>>> Heh-heh....I would gladly by a dozen at that price....
>>>>
>>>> On Wednesday, September 21, 2022 at 3:37:30 PM UTC-7 gregebert wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> There was another twist on the NIMO tube that used an external
>>>>> deflection yoke to show multiple digits on a single line; I believe it 4 or
>>>>> 6 digits.
>>>>> Never saw this 8x8 tube before; that must be one RARE device.
>>>>> In order for a NIMO tube to display multiple lines of multiple
>>>>> characters (like a CRT), it would need a deflection yoke for X and Y
>>>>> direction.
>>>>>
>>>>> I feel sad for the folks at IEE who put so much time and effort into
>>>>> the NIMO tube. It's technologically clever, but a colossal execution and
>>>>> marketing failure; it missed the market window by about 10 years.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wednesday, September 21, 2022 at 3:02:23 PM UTC-7 Pramanicin wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Turns out there was!!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://lampes-et-tubes.info/cd/cd080.php?l=e
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 3:01 PM Nicholas Stock <nick...@gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Were these ever a thing?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [image: image.png]
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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