Talk:Display device

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The "departure board" display refers (I don't know the name) to mechanical display, where all the possible things (digits, letters, labels etc.) it can display are written on plates, which are all hanging on an axis. When the axis rotates, the plates fall over, until the desired plate is shown. It is often used in railroad stations for departure/arrival boards and some old public clocks. Samohyl Jan 17:34, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Yeah, what's the technical name for this? It's de:Fallblattanzeige in German, but I'd really like to know the english term. Peter S. 20:21, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

I've been looking on eBay for clock-radios and noticed that a clock-radio with such kind of clock display is widely called 'flip clock radio'. By the way, I'm a proud owner of such a clock-radio! 212.129.134.53 17:31, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

I believe the technical term is "split-flap display" Garfield226 13:58, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

Hi, everyone! I spent far too much time on Google not finding the answers, when I finally discovered this talk page! I've since added a page called Split-flap display (and some redirects here and there). Please let me know what you think! Tyler Mitchell 07:39, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Picture

Did anyone notice that all the displays in the picture have the number 1337 in them? – ABCD✉ 02:47, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

Sure, why do you ask? And I know of leet. Samohyl Jan 06:12, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

With this picture, some readers might think that all VFDs are dot matrix, while most of them are still 7-segment.

[edit] Plasma

Shouldn't the word "plasma" be included somewhere in the listing? Just a thought. Nicholasink 02:52, 13 March 2006 (UTC)