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From: howard@cpocd2.UUCP (Howard A. Landman)
Newsgroups: rec.audio,sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Re: In defense of solid-state devices
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Date: Thu, 22-Oct-87 16:29:57 EST
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Organization: Intel Corp. ASIC Systems Operation, Chandler AZ
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Keywords: Blue light  LED  silicon carbide  blue LED
Summary: Blue LEDs are available
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In article <2017@mtx5a.ATT.COM> mat@mtx5a.ATT.COM (m.terribile) writes:
>If you want to sell on the audiophile market, you really should get a blue
>glow in there; everybody will assume it's a new variation on the Beam Power
>Tube.  [...]  If you have to use a LED, then use green, [...]

Why not blue?  Blue-light LEDs (made with, I believe, silicon carbide) are
readily available, just a little expensive.  For this application, cost is
clearly not a major factor.

Now if HP would just release a blue version of their 101-LED bar graph
display (currently available in red and green) ...

-- 
	Howard A. Landman
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