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Re: What is the quintessential Apple II?

<heuser.marcus@freenet.de> wrote in message 
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>> The name escapes me at the moment..."dekatron" comes to mind...
>
> A "nixie tube"?

No. A nixie tube is just a neon filled tube with 10 electrodes
in the shape of numbers 0 to 9. Basically same functionality as
a 7 segment LED, but doesn't need a decoder.

As Michael correctly remembered the name "decatron" is a very
different device.

http://mypage.bluewin.ch/sagnell/id14.htm

" The Decatron was a self-indicating decimal counter tube using a neon glow 
discharge"

-Alex.