Another hamfest find

From: Greg Troutman <mor_at_crl.com>
Date: Tue Mar 10 21:47:10 1998

Joe wrote:
>
> I found an interesting gadget at a hamfest last weekend. It's a Digi-Viewer
> made by SwTPc. It's a gold colored metal box about 6 x 5 x 4 inches. It
> has the outline of an IC on it and 16 lights around the outline to
> represent each IC pin. There's a cable coming out of the box with a 16 pin
> chip clip on the other end. It's AC powered and looks like it uses
> incandescent bulbs instead of LEDs. I've never heard of one before but it
> looks like a prehistoric IC pin status display. Anyone here ever use one of
> these?

Not this exact one, but they made numerous similar digital tools. I've
seen the kind that has a smaller LED display that sits right on top of
the chip-clip thingy. I love this kind of thing. Let me know if it's
taking up too much space ;)

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