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Re: Nixie tube calculator readout?

From	Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	alt.folklore.computers
Subject	Re: Nixie tube calculator readout?
Date	2019-12-06 19:56 -0500
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JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> writes:

> On Fri, 06 Dec 2019 11:03:24 -0500, Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes:
>>
>>> Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> writes:
>>>>scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes:
>>>>
>>>>> Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> writes:
>>>>>>scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com writes:
>>>>>>>>Here is a 1970 ad for a calculator.  Was the screen
>>>>>>>>using Nixie tubes to display the results?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>https://archive.org/details/Nations-Business-1970-07/page/n8
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Those look more like the score wheels on a pinball machine.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Not to me.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I claim expert status, I own 3 pinball machines.
>>>>>
>>>>> I own two, both 1969 vintage.
>>>>
>>>>That's pretty old.  I think my 2 old ones are mid-70s.
>>>>Aztec, Jacks Open, and one solid state, Silverball Mania.
>>>
>>> Target Pool and Paddock.
>>>
>>> The latter has add-a-ball.
>>
>>Target has those tiny flippers.
>>Paddock has those wonderful Williams flippers.
>>The video I just watched the Paddock flippers seemed really weak.
>>I suppose that's just game condition.
>
> I would catch the bus to go to my first job out of high school. I
> played pinball while waiting for it. About a month later I noticed
> they flippers weren't as strong. Turns out the bus ticket lady didn't
> like such noise at 8 AM and had asked the tech who repaired thyem to
> weaken them. My impression is it was a setting inside the pinball
> machine.
>
> Sorry, I don't remember the name of the machine. This would have been
> about 1966; however, the machine could have been from years before
> that.

Flipper solenoids have 2 coils.
One cuts out when the flipper reaches all the way up.
This is so that people that hold the flippers up don't burn up the
coils.

So, disabling one of the coils would be the obvious choice.
I've seen that as a failure mode.  Sometimes you can barely get the ball
in the air.

-- 
Dan Espen

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Nixie tube calculator readout? hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2019-12-05 12:32 -0800
  Re: Nixie tube calculator readout? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2019-12-05 20:47 +0000
    Re: Nixie tube calculator readout? Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2019-12-05 17:14 -0500
      Re: Nixie tube calculator readout? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2019-12-05 23:09 +0000
        Re: Nixie tube calculator readout? durgadas311@gmail.com - 2019-12-05 15:21 -0800
          Re: Nixie tube calculator readout? durgadas311@gmail.com - 2019-12-05 15:26 -0800
            Re: Nixie tube calculator readout? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2019-12-06 14:38 +0000
        Re: Nixie tube calculator readout? hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2019-12-06 13:14 -0800
        Re: Nixie tube calculator readout? drb@ihatespam.msu.edu (Dennis Boone) - 2019-12-11 15:40 -0600
          Re: Nixie tube calculator readout? durgadas311@gmail.com - 2019-12-11 16:23 -0800
            Re: Nixie tube calculator readout? Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2019-12-12 00:07 -0800
              Re: Nixie tube calculator readout? durgadas311@gmail.com - 2019-12-12 03:43 -0800
          Re: Nixie tube calculator readout? hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2019-12-12 10:58 -0800
      Re: Nixie tube calculator readout? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2019-12-06 14:35 +0000
        Re: Nixie tube calculator readout? Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2019-12-06 09:50 -0500
          Re: Nixie tube calculator readout? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2019-12-06 15:30 +0000
            Re: Nixie tube calculator readout? Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2019-12-06 11:03 -0500
              Re: Nixie tube calculator readout? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2019-12-06 18:22 +0000
                Re: Nixie tube calculator readout? Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2019-12-06 19:49 -0500
              Re: Nixie tube calculator readout? JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> - 2019-12-06 13:15 -0600
                Re: Nixie tube calculator readout? Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2019-12-06 19:56 -0500
                Re: Nixie tube calculator readout? JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> - 2019-12-07 11:07 -0600
                Re: Nixie tube calculator readout? Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2019-12-07 14:58 -0500
          Re: Nixie tube calculator readout? Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2019-12-06 12:40 -0500
            Re: Nixie tube calculator readout? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2019-12-06 18:33 +0000
            Re: Nixie tube calculator readout? Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2019-12-06 19:39 -0500
              Re: Nixie tube calculator readout? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2019-12-07 19:33 +0000
                Re: Nixie tube calculator readout? Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2019-12-07 15:38 -0500
          Re: Nixie tube calculator readout? JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> - 2019-12-06 13:12 -0600
            Re: Nixie tube calculator readout? Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2019-12-06 19:50 -0500
      Re: Nixie tube calculator readout? Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2019-12-06 12:36 -0500
        Re: Nixie tube calculator readout? Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2019-12-06 19:19 -0500
          Re: Nixie tube calculator readout? Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2019-12-07 15:09 -0500
            Re: Nixie tube calculator readout? Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2019-12-07 17:44 -0500
              Re: Nixie tube calculator readout? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2019-12-08 17:00 +0000
              Re: Nixie tube calculator readout? Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2019-12-08 13:51 -0500
                Re: Nixie tube calculator readout? Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2019-12-08 14:38 -0500
          Re: Nixie tube calculator readout? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2019-12-08 17:00 +0000
      Re: Pinball machines Nixie tube calculator readout? hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2019-12-06 13:12 -0800
        Re: Pinball machines Nixie tube calculator readout? J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2019-12-06 17:17 -0500
        Re: Pinball machines Nixie tube calculator readout? Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2019-12-06 19:58 -0500
          Re: Pinball machines Nixie tube calculator readout? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2019-12-08 16:48 +0000
          Re: Pinball machines Nixie tube calculator readout? hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2019-12-09 13:44 -0800
            Re: Pinball machines Nixie tube calculator readout? Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2019-12-09 19:20 -0500
              Re: Pinball machines Nixie tube calculator readout? Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2019-12-10 14:11 -0500
                Re: Pinball machines Nixie tube calculator readout? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2019-12-10 19:26 +0000
                Re: Pinball machines Nixie tube calculator readout? Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2019-12-10 19:02 -0500
                Re: Pinball machines Nixie tube calculator readout? "Kerr-Mudd,John" <notsaying@invalid.org> - 2019-12-11 10:55 +0000
                Re: Pinball machines Nixie tube calculator readout? Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2019-12-11 14:04 -0500
                Re: Pinball machines Nixie tube calculator readout? "Kerr-Mudd,John" <notsaying@invalid.org> - 2019-12-11 19:30 +0000
                Re: Pinball machines Nixie tube calculator readout? Gene Wirchenko <gene@shaw.ca> - 2019-12-11 21:02 -0800
              Re: Pinball machines Nixie tube calculator readout? hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2019-12-11 11:50 -0800
                Re: Pinball machines Nixie tube calculator readout? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2019-12-11 21:30 +0000
                Re: Pinball machines Nixie tube calculator readout? Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2019-12-11 18:35 -0500
  Re: Nixie tube calculator readout? Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2019-12-06 10:51 -0800
    Re: Nixie tube calculator readout? Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2019-12-11 04:37 -0800

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