United Systems Corp.

Digital Multimeter model 262B

Where we live we don't have home pickup garbage service,

once a week I take the bag of the weeks garbage and the bags of recyclables to a dumpster site a few miles from our home.

Several months ago I made friends with the guy that is usually working when I take trash. One day I drove my Buick that has all the ham radio antennas installed on it, he asked about all the antennas so it didn't take long for me to get around to old radios. He said that once in a while someone will toss something old in the electronics recycling shed...

I told him to keep an eye out for interesting stuff. That first day he let me look and I found a box of old TV tubes (junk)

and a real nice Western Electric rotary dial telephone, how

long has it been since you used one of those??

Today I took the trash up there and asked if anything interesting had been tossed, he said there was a woodgrain TV,

so we went to look, it was nothing, a Zenith likely from the 80s. Then he said "here's an old multimeter", he pulled it out

and handed it to me. WOW it's a nixie tube multimeter so

I brought it home.

It was made by United Systems Corp. of Dayton OH.

It's a model 262B and has an IBM property tag, the calibration sticker was last dated in 1990, pretty late for

an oldie like this.

It was VERY dirty, after several scrubbings it still doesn't

look clean. It has the original pouch with it's leads. I gave

it a quick look over, decided it wouldn't be much lost if it

didn't work, so I plugged it in, the nixie tubes light up and

it seems to work, I'll take it to the shop when it warms up some and really check it out.

I Googled "United Systems Corp. of Dayton OH." but got

nothing. does anyone in the group know anything about them?

Below are some photos showing it. I would guess it's likely

from the late 1960s.

There a name plate that was above the display that's missing,

likely had "United Systems Corp" on it, and a couple knob brights are missing too...

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