Who doesn't want an old-style train departure board in their kitchen?

[brooklynite]

https://www.vestaboard.com/ces

[mahatmakanejeeves]

1. Brooklynite! THAT's "old-style"?

Puh-leeze. Where's the chalk?







Here's something modern: letters already made up. You just put them where they're needed.

[brooklynite]

2. Yeah, yeah, yeah...

...but those are sloppy. Also, you get no sound cue that things are changing.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

4. Those big-city ways are getting to you.

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]

5. The Penn Station board that was removed was a digital replacement for the old Solari board

As for the clock, flip board clocks were a thing in the 70s.

[MineralMan]

3. Very Cool, but pretty pricey.

I don't think I'll buy one for personal use.

[brooklynite]

6. Wait for the Chinese and Koreans to develop a knock-off version.

[MineralMan]

8. I'll bet that one is made outside of the United States.

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]

9. No, they're not selling it as a simple electronic display; the flipper board action is critical

This is essentially functional artwork.

[genxlib]

7. That's cool

That sound of an updating board is one of the coolest things I remember about youthful travels. It is iconic.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

10. I have to agree. I'm sure there's a YouTube video (probably several) of those updating. NT

[muriel_volestrangler]

11. Not sure I'd trust an electronics firm that seems to have confused 'characters' and 'bits'

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.