Gunamoi Nixie Clock

Gunamoi Nixie Clock is a free desktop clock that simulates nixie tubes. Gunamoi Nixie Clock is a free desktop clock that simulates nixie tubes.

After starting Gunamoi Nixie Clock, you can click on the digits to change their size. The Nixie Clock will always display on top of any other windows on your screen.

Nixie tubes were the numeric display technology of choice in the 1960\'s and early 1970\'s. Some would call them the pinnacle of the vacuum tube makers art. Each tube contains 10 individual cathodes, each carefully formed in the shape of a digit. The tube is filled with a mixture of gases, including neon. A high voltage applied to one of the cathodes causes the gas around it to glow in a soft orange light.

Because each digit is individually formed, they tend to have a more pleasing shape than seven-segment displays.
In addition, since the digits are lined up one behind the other inside the tube,
there is an extra 3-dimensional aspect to Nixie displays that does not exist with newer technologies. As the digits count from 0 to 9, they appear to march away from the viewer in the tube.

While Nixie tubes were eventually replaced in the West by cheaper, lower voltage seven segment LED displays, and later by LCDs, they continued to be used and manufactured in Eastern Europe until very recently.
A growing nostalgia for the old technology, fueled by availability of stocks of East European tubes, has lead to a small industry in Nixie tube clocks and ornaments.

Unfortunately, a computer display cannot replicate the 3-D effect of Nixie tubes