Re: Shopping list customers - Gotta love them

[technomaNge <piracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jim wrote:

>
> I've mentioned it here before but in the early years of solid state
> technology, when LED's were first introduced, there was a lot of
> excitement about Light emitting diodes. Someone wrote a very credible
> sounding article in a technical or engineeing magazine about DED's
> Dark emitting diodes. The article went on about how a large number of
> these could put a whole room into darkness.and numerous other examples
> of how they would be used.  I can't imagine how many people actually
> didn't know that the article was written tongue- in-cheek and believed
> it.


Bah.
I'm partial to LERs myself (light emitting resistor),
even though they will soon be outlawed in favor of fluorescents.


technomaNge
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