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Article #2967Re: Do _blue_ L.E.D.s exist?
From: Eric Bowman
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1990 19:41
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1990 19:41
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In article <7568@b11.ingr.com> mcconnel@b11.ingr.com (Guy McConnell) writes:
>In article <THOMAS.90Feb22153610@uplog.uplog.se>, thomas@uplog.se (Thomas Tornblom) writes:
>>
>> Yes, they exist. They are *EXTREMELY* expensive, at least when I checked
>> last.
>>
>> An old catalog (1988) that I have has a price of $50 (!) for the blue
>> and about $0.50 for red/green/yellow. Quantities of one.
>
> I saw them recently in EE Times or somesuch magazine advertised much cheaper
> than this. Unfortunately, I don't remember the mag, the price, or the
> company! I'll look for the add again but I recall that they were advertised
> as "available in production quantities" so they do exist. They were still
> more expensive than the red/green/yellow ones but several orders of
> magnitude less than the price you quote above.
>
>
> Guy McConnell
> Intergraph Corp.
> Huntsville, AL.
I read something recently about a cost breakthrough that might make LED TV
possible -- evidently a *big* cost breakthrough. A friend of mine working
in a display group thinks the TV part is bunk, but confirmed about 1/10
recent price reduction.
BoBo
bowman@reed.{bitnet,UUCP}
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!ogicse!littlei!reed!bowman From: bowman@reed.UUCP (Eric Bowman) Newsgroups: misc.wanted,sci.electronics,sci.physics Subject: Re: Do _blue_ L.E.D.s exist? Message-ID: <14268@reed.UUCP> Date: 25 Feb 90 19:41:44 GMT References: <2026.25e3b2bb@admdev.cut.oz> <THOMAS.90Feb22153610@uplog.uplog.se> <7568@b11.ingr.com> Reply-To: bowman@reed.UUCP (Eric Bowman) Organization: Reed College, Portland OR Lines: 42