The Nixie Economy
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The Nixie Economy is a nonfiction book by mathematician Alice Beta about the economic and historical significance of Nixie tubes.
The book documents a wide range of underground and semi-illicit computational activities carried out by an informal but self-organizing network of Nixie manufacturers, dealers, and users.
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Nixie tube collectors praise The Nixie Economy as "a long-overdue assessment of the economic and historical significance of Nixie tubes.
Mathematician Alice Beta wins Pulitzer Prize for The Nixie Economy, hailed as "a startlingly prescient document, anticipating economic and political events of the 1990s."