@mwichary My dad had an old electronic calculator — an enormous thing that must have weighed 20 kg — with a row of 10 or 12 Nixies for the display.

It was fascinating to watch in use, because it was *just* slow enough to see the digits flicker back and forth while it was calculating the answer.

@mwichary That one twigged some nostalgia: My father worked for Control Data, and some of my earliest clear memories are of him taking me to work, and seeing an animated Snoopy in flying ace gear flying his doghouse across the screen — in ASCII art no less, at first.

Long time ago. <sigh>

(As a bonus, the amber brought to mind my old Hyperion mostly-PC-compatible “portable”, which I still have)