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Old 07-05-2013, 03:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Tim R. View Post
Or you could go the "fake digital" route with one of these:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKV0YRwCggc

Also a GE clock, this uses the Telechron Digitel (sic) movement to mimic a digital clock. A mechanical drivetrain opens and closes a series of shutters to form the different digits. These were made in the USA in the mid-70s and are quite solidly built.

I own two of them and both work. One sat in a guest bedroom plugged in for 30 years, and it still operates like new. Model 8138. They turn up every now and then on eBay, commonly as part of a Japanese clock radio.
Man, I've got to get me one of those.
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