We love spacecraft and we definitely love teardowns, especially if they are for vintage devices. [Ken Shirriff] writes about taking apart the digital clock module from the Soviet Soyuz series of ...
The Neon glow of a Nixie tube makes for an attractive clock, but that’s not enough neon for some people. [Changliang Li] is apparently one of those people, because he’s using soviet-era cold-cathode ...
Unless you were a computer scientist in the 1950s, you might not know about Nixie tubes (aka cold cathode displays). They're essentially neon numeric displays housed in a vacuum tube-like enclosure ...