Vacuum fluorescent display
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A vacuum fluorescent display is a display device once commonly used on consumer electronics equipment such as video cassette recorders, car radios, and microwave ovens.
A full view of a typical vacuum fluorescent display used in a videocassette recorder
A close-up of the VFD highlighting the multiple filaments, tensioned by the sheet metal springs at the right of the image
Vacuum fluorescent display from a CD and dual cassette Hi-Fi. All segments are visible due to external ultraviolet illumination.
Macro image of a VFD digit with 3 horizontal tungsten wires and control grid
Nixie tube
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A Nixie tube, or cold cathode display, is an electronic device used for displaying numerals or other information using glow discharge.
Vacuum fluorescent display
…anode. The Japanese seven segment VFD meant that no patent royalties needed to be paid on desk calculator displays as would have been the case using Nixie tubes or Panaplex neon digits or for LED displays on pocket calculators. In the UK the Philips designs were made and marketed by Mullard (almost wholly owned…
Systron-Donner frequency counter from 1973 with Nixie-tube display
Philips five digit, 120kHz electronic counter with E1T tubes for nuclear and scientific applications
The stacked digit arrangement in a Nixie tube is visible in this (stripped) ZM1210.
A 2-digit seven-segment ″Panaplex″-display made by Beckman (1974)