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Oh god I feel old. I remember being an excited schoolboy thinking how magic this was when it debuted.
by davidwritesbugs 4mo ago
Oh god I feel old. I remember being an excited schoolboy thinking how magic this was when it debuted.
- davidwritesbugs 4mo agoI also remember being amazed, and did a forehead slap, when an old army bomb disposal man explained how, what I thought was an innocent device, was used by the IRA in bombs.
- nickcw 4mo agoHa. When I was a teenager I used to build 555s into timers for the same purpose using a no PCB rats nest construction. Though surprising the family at dinner with a small explosion was a much more innocent purpose.
- Brian_K_White 4mo agoFor me that is blue leds.
- mhh__ 4mo ago"rareleds" on Instagram is fantastic. Vintage LEDs set to apex twin and so on
- dboreham 4mo agoHaha, for me it was "LEDs".
- Brian_K_White 4mo agoUp until I was about 10 or 12 we only needed to dial 4 digits.
- davidwritesbugs 4mo agoYes! I remember thinking "damn you band gap physics, if we only had blue leds we could do colour displays with LEDs, but that can never happen."