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Which is why standalone digital clocks generally still use them instead of LCDs, and why I'd like to build a 7-segment clock at some point. That condition-agnostic readability is hard to beat.


The reason why most standalone digital clocks use LED seven segment displays is that to this day almost all of them are built around the same weird PMOS Sanyo ASIC from late 1970's.




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