1964 IEE Display Catalog!
Added 2023-12-17 00:30:50 +0000 UTCAnother valuable resource that lets us look right into the actual catalog of IEE projection displays and even the BINA-View! Can you guess what these things would cost in today dollars? Enjoy!
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William Nimmo
William Nimmo
2023-12-19 04:29:12 +0000 UTCLove it No Nrmos Id shocked Merry chrietmas n Happy New Years
William Nimmo
2023-12-19 04:28:59 +0000 UTCThe 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.
Motten
2023-12-18 00:15:52 +0000 UTC1964 the year I was born.... of course I don't really remember the Binaview!
Dr Andy Hill
2023-12-17 22:16:05 +0000 UTCI 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
2023-12-17 19:12:03 +0000 UTCO-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!
Markintosh
2023-12-17 19:06:01 +0000 UTCI'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.
Zygmunt Dean
2023-12-17 11:52:48 +0000 UTCAs the catalog showed, Industrial Electronic Engineers Inc. A company started in 1946, still going !
Bob Pockney
2023-12-17 11:07:16 +0000 UTCViewing angles were listed in the catalog. All were shown as 160°.
Bob Pockney
2023-12-17 11:04:11 +0000 UTChi 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
jmk
2023-12-17 09:22:04 +0000 UTCThey 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!
Matt Wietlispach
2023-12-17 05:14:13 +0000 UTCFantastic! And posted only 3 months before I was born, am I really that old?
David Peaker
2023-12-17 01:10:46 +0000 UTCPretty cool Fran!
Howard Hoyt
2023-12-17 00:56:11 +0000 UTCOmg I have one of those optical displays in a box. 6 of them together. Been meaning to make a clock with it.
Michael Cunningham
2023-12-17 00:51:40 +0000 UTCWhat is the IEE? Why are their catalogs full of amazing, obscure engineering solutions? How are you related to them?
User
2023-12-17 00:33:49 +0000 UTCToday dollars before the video, or after? Ha. A thing of beauty, a joy for ever.
Keri Szafir
2023-12-17 00:33:12 +0000 UTC
