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Originally Posted by evingar
Funny how things change. When blue LEDs first appeared, I managed to get X20 that were built into prototype equipment at work when it "hit the skip". I constructed a set of lights and they were hung onto a tree decorated solely with silver tinsel. They were a real talking point and stood out from all the multicoloured stuff everyone is so "dewy eyed" about now.
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Oddly enough, back in '79 when I was at University at Southampton, I had access to green, yellow and red LED's. Pretty low brightness by today's standards, but I couldn't resist it - I made up a set of Christmas tree lights, which my wife and I used right from then until three years ago, when we succumbed to modern LED lights.
But I think my set must have been pretty much the first LED Christmas tree lights around. They were a real talking point at the time.
Craig