Hackaday (unofficial) January 3, 2022 10:00am Edge-Mounted Meters Give This Retro Frequency Counter Six Decades of Display #retrocomputing #teardown #decade #electroniccounter #frequencycounter #germanium #movingcoil #ocxo #ovencontrolledcrystaloscillator #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Edge-Mounted Meters Give This Retro Frequency Counter Six Decades Of Display With regard to retro test gear, one’s thoughts tend to those Nixie-adorned instruments of yore, or the boat-anchor oscilloscopes that came with their own carts simply because there was no oth…
Hackaday (unofficial) December 15, 2021 5:00pm A Nixie Clock, the Hard Way #clockhacks #parts #clock #counter #electroniccounter #hewlettpackard #hp #nixie #retro #signalgenerator #vintage #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 A Nixie Clock, The Hard Way Notice: no vintage Hewlett Packard test equipment was harmed in the making of this overly complicated Nixie clock. In fact, if anything, the HP 5245L electronic counter came out better off than it …