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I have a love of electro-mechanical seven-segment displays. For scoreboards and timers, I feel like these are less intrusive than modern electronic display scoreboards.

There is something magical about seeing the score "flip" when a point is scored.

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I also like VFD displays. There is something magical in all that green glow.

There's definitely a certain style with VFDs that I'm a little surprised hasn't been adopted by people looking for a retro/cyberpunk aesthetic. I was looking into them when it seemed my decades old alarm clock might need a replacement, and they seem quite rare which I assume the economies aren't there in making something more complex and delicate. Interestingly there's a few clocks repurposing cooker displays, I'd guess a manufacturer had a large stockpile of displays for models they discontinued early and liquidated them.

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