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atoav 4 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Marketing to Engineers (2001)

If it is for engineers they probably mean a nixie tube which is a (old) cold cathode display device: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixie_tube

lukas099 4 months ago [–]

In the article it's actually used as an example of direct-marketing jargon.

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