At 03 May 2008 18:24:53 -0500 AZ Nomad wrote:

> I made a decision a while back that I would not buy anything that is still
> using seven segment readouts. They're ugly and primative and should have
> vanished twenty years ago with the invention of the embedded
microprocessor.


I think of them as "retro." ;-)

Besides, "if it ain't broke..." What other technology is as cheap and
easily readable from across a dark room? Certainly not backlit LCD!