[rescue] VRE01/VT1200 pictures

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Wed Jul 10 11:17:34 CDT 2002


On July 10, Leslie Connally wrote:
> >Remember when blue LEDs were $90/ea,
> 
> I never understood what the fuss was about with blue LED.. It just wasnt
> something I had any interest in. But I travel liquidation surplus circles,
> and several years ago, a buddy was _OH SO_ excited. he had bought .. i
> dunno 50,000 LEDs new surplus.. and I dont remember 10-20% turned out to be
> blue ones..
> 
> He was very very OH SO excited..

  A big part of the fuss was that companies spent incredible amounts of
money trying to create them for nearly twenty years and got nowhere.
The other part of the fuss was that blue LEDs are the missing "B" that
goes with "R" and "G".

            -Dave

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