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1964 IEE Display Catalog!

🕑 Added 2023-12-17 00:30:50 +0000 UTC

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William Nimmo

Love it No Nrmos Id shocked Merry chrietmas n Happy New Years

Motten

The sheets where you could plan out your own custom display are really cool. Your channel is such a treasure trove of beautiful things that should never be forgotten. Your voice is also very calming.

Dr Andy Hill

1964 the year I was born.... of course I don't really remember the Binaview!

Markintosh

I was only familiar with these types of readouts in the Mission Control Center in Houston (Gemini-Apollo era and possibly early Shuttle). The main viewing screen cluster had VERY large ones. The Consoles had a variety of different, smaller sized units.

Markintosh

O-M-G-!! That is PURE GOLD Fran!!! I have many of these in a variety of models. I can FINALLY put a name on my NASA Monitor Console panel units-the Series 220! I've been trying to figure out how they plugged into the panels-I see now they should have an accompanying sleeve that must have a latch & the contacts. The text spacing layouts are awesome! I have had so much trouble reverse engineering my own text masks. Will you make any hi-res scans available for the rest of us IEE Nerds? Thank you for a FANTASTIC video!

Zygmunt Dean

I'm intrigued to see that they had an office in Elstree, where various film and TV studios have existed. It seems a reasonable guess that their devices could have ended up in productions such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, the TV series UFO, and Star Wars, amongst many others made there. Fun Fact - the video for Bohemian Rhapsody was also made at that site.

Bob Pockney

As the catalog showed, Industrial Electronic Engineers Inc. A company started in 1946, still going !

Bob Pockney

Viewing angles were listed in the catalog. All were shown as 160°.

jmk

hi fran https://lampes-et-tubes.info/cd/cd127.php?l=e has some colour pictures of the insides of the IEE One-Plane Readout Model No. 00060

Matt Wietlispach

They don't seem to call out "viewing angle" in the catalog, or did I just miss it? Those projection modules were plenty bright if they were straight in front of you, but if the readout was 10" to the right, the readouts became problematic. I have seen them used in military avionics, such as in the P3 Orion, but they were used ONLY in the back of the plane where sunlight was not present and the cabin lighting was under strict control. The few panels that used them were also in panels located directly in front of the operator. They even had push-button functionality, which was really cool. All kinds of custom messages would appear when lit. It's the set-up for the switch artwork/text that really costs a lot up-front. Then, after the artwork is made, subsequent switches would no doubt become much less expensive. Korry makes push-button switches for Boeing, and other customers, which have a mechanical shutter over a backlit text. Usually "ON" in a circle or "ALTN" and a variety of custom messages. The bottom half of this square indicator cap normally, but not always, was a flat black face until the 28V lamps behind them lit up and words like "FAIL" or "EMER" or whatever would light up with the color of choice. They have an excellent feel and are amazingly reliable considering the shutter mechanics at the top half of the switch cap. I was told they were almost always way above $1000 each, but like your catalog, prices dropped when you bought over 100 of the same cap/switch assembly. So, if the inflation calculator on-line is working, $1200 today would be $123 back in 1965. So, incredibly expensive switches still exist today in aerospace and defense. But now the bulbs have been replaced with LEDs since they are now daylight readable brightness-wise. Think of how much better those old projection modules would work with the super-bright white LEDs of today. A HUGE increase in brightness with a HUGE drop in heat and power consumption. I think I'm going to install one of these LEDs in place of an incandescent bulb in a few of the projection modules I have. Now I'm really curious to see what the difference is when switching from one message with a super-bright white LED and another with a normal #327 28V aerospace lamp. If I can find where I put them. Your demonstration videos really give me great ideas to go off and experiment on my own. Love those old catalogs!