What's wrong with this picture?

[MIflyer]

Perhaps, self stick number stickers. Peel 'em off and reuse 'em.

I'm thinking really big LEDs.

 

[CATCH 22]

One can learn much here!

Yep, but you usually end up with headache.

 

[Capt. Vick]

"Did we give up when the Germans bomb Pearl Harbor?"

 

[special ed]

Not yet.

 

[GrauGeist]

I'm thinking really big LEDs.

They didn't have LEDs back then, those were bigass Nixie Tubes...

 

[MIflyer]

They didn't have LEDs back then, those were bigass Nixie Tubes...

They did not have Nixie tubes back then, either. Probably 100 watt light bulbs. The recent Atom Bomb movie that featured a radio with the Nixie tubes sitting atop it got that wrong. By the way, I have had that same model of radio, a BC-348, with a Nixie tube display sitting atop it in my living room for several years now. Don't know how the movie people stole the idea. At least the BC-348 was sort of right; they were used in heavy bombers and transports in WW2.

 

[GrauGeist]

Actually, the Nixie tube technology and rights were purchased in the 1950's by Burroughs Corp. from Haydu Laboratories, who invented and patented the digital display tube in the 1930's.

They did exist before and during WWII, the Haydu brothers simply didn't have the ability to mass produce them.

 

[Barrett]

Some people are paid WAY too much.
But we knew that...

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[Capt. Vick]

WTF?

 

[GrauGeist]

The only American bombers Hauptman Johnen claimed were three B-25s...