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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWho doesn't want an old-style train departure board in their kitchen?
https://www.vestaboard.com/cesmahatmakanejeeves
(57,740 posts)Puh-leeze. Where's the chalk?
Here's something modern: letters already made up. You just put them where they're needed.
brooklynite
(94,974 posts)...but those are sloppy. Also, you get no sound cue that things are changing.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,740 posts)What? You can't ask the ticket clerk where The Crescent is?
The existing boards at Penn Station are coming out now, aren't they? No doubt to be replaced by some hifalutin gadget.
I think I might still have an early "digital" clock where the hour and minute numbers flop into place. Not sure.
brooklynite
(94,974 posts)As for the clock, flip board clocks were a thing in the 70s.
MineralMan
(146,351 posts)I don't think I'll buy one for personal use.
brooklynite
(94,974 posts)MineralMan
(146,351 posts)Truly.
It's going to have to compete with other programmable digital display boards, too, that don't have moving parts. Those have come way, way down in price and are even more flexible in the characters they can display. For example:
https://www.displays2go.com/P-34533/Digital-Signage-Solution-Includes-49-LG-SuperSign-TV-Lobby-Stand?utm_source=google.pla&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=GooglePLA&gclid=Cj0KCQiAs9zSBRC5ARIsAFMtUXEoa7D_fCEEJynd_zKwOx1M4xgwFmZu3Tz57v2vLmu4fe38vmuvfUgaAk1gEALw_wcB
brooklynite
(94,974 posts)This is essentially functional artwork.
genxlib
(5,547 posts)That sound of an updating board is one of the coolest things I remember about youthful travels. It is iconic.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,740 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,412 posts)It is a 23x7 array, so that's 161 characters. And no compression is going to encode 70 characters in a single bit. But you might use 70 bits for a character, for whatever reasons.