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When I got started in electronics, I imagine exactly a little LED lighting up when a bit is flip in a memory chip. The on in the post is a great illustration! well done!



Dekatrons work like this :) The actual logical state of the thing is stored using a glowing plasma.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dekatron https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iF8CnG7ee-A




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