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Comment by badlibrarian

6 days ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-flap_display

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flip-disc_display

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msarnoff  6 days ago

When I was last at Penn Station in the 2010s their departure board was a mosaic LCD like the article, not a split-flap display:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/Penn_Sta...

I do miss the split flap displays at the Boston and Providence Amtrak stations though…

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