L and 8 symbol tube presentation

129 views
Skip to first unread message

bogdan paduraru

unread,
Apr 24, 2026, 1:11:17 PMApr 24
to neoni...@googlegroups.com
Just to present one of my weird tubes
National NL1267 that displays L and 8 => could spell "Late"
image0.jpeg
image1.jpeg

gregebert

unread,
Apr 24, 2026, 9:09:55 PMApr 24
to neonixie-l
What on Earth was that tube created for ????

Jeff Walton

unread,
Apr 24, 2026, 10:45:12 PMApr 24
to neoni...@googlegroups.com
The Lucky 8 Ranch! 
--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to neonixie-l+...@googlegroups.com.
To view this discussion, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/186997b0-4ff3-4eb4-84f0-1f53d401aa72n%40googlegroups.com.

Richard Scales

unread,
Apr 24, 2026, 11:07:47 PMApr 24
to neonixie-l
I note that there is a Thompson TAF1267A nixie that only displays 0,1 and 2 - which is almost as weird though I can see a use as a leading digit for a clock that shows nothing other than the time and the date!
- Richard

Nicholas Stock

unread,
Apr 24, 2026, 11:11:20 PMApr 24
to neoni...@googlegroups.com
Like the B6037, but with more digits to the right.....


Haven't come up with a decent 'clock' idea for them yet....

To view this discussion, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/c1df1a1d-de46-4248-9d80-0c0ad9b3d598n%40googlegroups.com.

bogdan paduraru

unread,
Apr 25, 2026, 12:02:20 AMApr 25
to neoni...@googlegroups.com
That must be one of the strangest combinations of symbols ever 

On 25 Apr 2026, at 04:09, gregebert <greg...@hotmail.com> wrote:

What on Earth was that tube created for ????


On Friday, April 24, 2026 at 10:11:17 AM UTC-7 bogdan paduraru wrote:
Just to present one of my weird tubes
National NL1267 that displays L and 8 => could spell "Late"

--

bogdan paduraru

unread,
Apr 25, 2026, 12:12:19 AMApr 25
to neoni...@googlegroups.com
And you could use the big Rodan CD42, presented a while back here , for showing hours ...

On 25 Apr 2026, at 06:07, 'Richard Scales' via neonixie-l <neoni...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

I note that there is a Thompson TAF1267A nixie that only displays 0,1 and 2 - which is almost as weird though I can see a use as a leading digit for a clock that shows nothing other than the time and the date!

Leroy Jones

unread,
Apr 25, 2026, 12:36:24 AMApr 25
to neonixie-l
The B-6037 is very interesting to me!   This is because I have done extensive experimentation along the lines of making various hexadecimal readout systems
using nixie tubes.   In my experiments, each HEX "digit" needed (2) regular 0-9 style tubes.   The tubes would display 00 through 09, and then 10 through 15.
It is quite easy to use 10 through 15 as a way to visualize hex digits A through F.   But using 2 tubes per digit is bulky and wasteful because the left tube just needs to show
0 and 1.    But the B-6037 solves that!    I never even knew such a tube existed.    B-6037 must be quite rare.        -Chuck

Dekatron42

unread,
Apr 25, 2026, 6:46:21 AMApr 25
to neonixie-l
Burroughs wrote "Special combinations of alphabet and numerical characters available to order." &  "Special combinations of up to 10 alphabet and numerical characters available to order in regular numeric tubes."  in many of their price schedules (if not all) during the 50's and 60's and on some they even showed examples of what they could put in the tube. Later they developed the Nixie's which had more than two supports in the same envelope so they could add even more ordinary digits and special characters in each envelope (Burroughs B-6032), like the ones above in this thread.

Maybe 10-15 years or so back there was one seller on eBay who sold original Burroughs modules with these dual Nixie types shown above, perhaps someone here on this forum was the lucky winner and can show them. They looked like the Burroughs BIP-8XXX series of modules (BIP-8054/8055) but clearly showed the dual digit Nixies in the auction - had saved the photos from the auction but an SSD crash (before I had had time to make a backup) killed the SSD completely, so the photos just sit in my memory now.

/Martin

bogdan paduraru

unread,
Apr 25, 2026, 7:43:26 AMApr 25
to neoni...@googlegroups.com
Like B-5094 or NL-816? I would like to see some other similar types 

On 25 Apr 2026, at 13:46, Dekatron42 <martin....@gmail.com> wrote:



Liam Bartosiewicz

unread,
Apr 27, 2026, 11:22:27 PMApr 27
to neoni...@googlegroups.com
The "8" in this tube looks very similar to auxiliary anodes used in National Electronics tubes; I think this tube was purely designed to display an "L", which is still very odd. Seems reasonably common in +/- tubes, like the NL-5016, NL-5992, NL-811, NL-843, and NL-847. Interestingly, I could not find any examples of Burroughs tubes, even analogous ones, that include this auxiliary anode. It's also interesting that it isn't internally connected. 

Liam

To view this discussion, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/1DCDDA37-D306-4832-853B-D4205494A791%40yahoo.com.

bogdan paduraru

unread,
Apr 28, 2026, 12:44:56 AMApr 28
to neoni...@googlegroups.com, neoni...@googlegroups.com
I am pretty sure that the tube was designed to show L and 8 as it has 2 of the 8s inside .
If anyone has other weird types , please show them, will try to present some more from my collection soon.
PS , does anyone knows any former employee of National/ Richardson/ Varian etc that worked on the nixie department?

On 28 Apr 2026, at 06:22, Liam Bartosiewicz <liambart...@gmail.com> wrote:



Liam Bartosiewicz

unread,
Apr 29, 2026, 3:20:59 PMApr 29
to neoni...@googlegroups.com
That’s really interesting! Never heard of a nixie with two of the same symbol. I have some strange tubes in my collection, I’ll have to get around to sharing some photos sometime soon.

Liam
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to neonixie-l+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to neonixie-l+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to neonixie-l+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to neonixie-l+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
To view this discussion, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/57E9C69E-F9BA-4710-9471-BCA48811576D%40yahoo.com.
Reply all
Reply to author
Forward
0 new messages