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From: goehring@cs.purdue.EDU (Scott Goehring)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Looking for Blue LEDs
Keywords: blue, LED, clock radios, flourescent display
Message-ID: <4944@medusa.cs.purdue.edu>
Date: 24 Sep 88 01:49:45 GMT
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In article <7061@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> ins_agh@jhunix.UUCP (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 have one of those clock-radios.  Mine uses a flourescent display, not
LEDs.  After seeing the prices that some have posted for blue LEDs I
don't even want to think about what a blue seven-segment LED display
would cost.