Richfiles,
The board is from an XRay machine control panel originating from a large dutch company . Pretty hard to get one surplus I imagine. This one is faulty, but not sure what the fault is as I'll have to try and power it up to check it out. Absolutely no detailed info, no info on VFDs, no schematics, etc.
Good luck with your search.
Hehe! Thanks for getting back to me. Yeah... That's not likely to be easily found... NICE score though!
I happen to have a pair of the large 2x20s (parallel) that I posted about above, and another pair of 1x16s that are much smaller (parallel with a serial board attached). I've got a pair of POS displays hiding out somewhere in my shop. I forget if they are 1 or 2 line, or if they are 16 or 20 character displays, but I do know those have a serial cable leading to them. The honest truth... I've considered actually using nixies for my altimeter, with a toggle to select orbital or radar altimeters... Just the altimeter though. I only got so many of them, and I despise those lazy Russian ones with the flipped "2" instead of a real "5"... I only get good quality legit "5" nixies that originated from western or asian makers when I build stuff!
I got a drawer full of nice Rodan GR-111a nixies that were left over from the donor machine from when I restored a Sony Sobax ICC-600W calculator. I got about a dozen more (part number not determined yet) from the worlds' most "fragmented" Sobax calculator... I have never seen a case cracked into so many pieces, while still being "fully assembled"!
As a collector, I will only tear it down if I find the need to do so. As... full of character as it is, I don't have another of that particular model in my collection, nor do I have another machine by which to restore using parts from it yet.
Regardless, VFD character display are not uncommon, and can be easily found online... It's just so RARE to see a single board with SO MANY!
Aaaaand it looks like it's a Philips.