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Re: Looking for Blue LEDs

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From: Larry Lippman
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 1988 02:09
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In article <7061@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>, ins_agh@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Gary Henry) writes:
> There are electronic clock radios out there with blue digits, so they
> do exist!  (or, at least there is a good trick to make it SEEM like
> they are blue LEDs!)

	I suspect that you are looking at a vacuum fluorescent display, most
of which emit blue light.

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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!kitty!larry
From: larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics,rec.audio
Subject: Re: Looking for Blue LEDs
Summary: Vacuum fluorescent displays...
Keywords: blue blue blue, not yellow or red or green
Message-ID: <2711@kitty.UUCP>
Date: 24 Sep 88 02:09:08 GMT
References: <1138@nmtsun.nmt.edu> <862@ritcv.UUCP> <255@rna.UUCP> <7061@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Organization: Recognition Research Corp., Clarence, NY
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