Now, as all counting IC's diceased, (you certainly know this : a superb circuit proposal either needs parts which nobody knows,
or parts you cannot buy any longer or those parts have an astronomical price :-)
So in order to have some future prospects, this design is based on an Atmel Microprofessor. For the nostalgics among you,
we used a VFD (Vacuum Fluorescent Display) which is available at a very low price at various distributers ...