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On Mon, 21 Apr 2025 19:40:14 +1000, Daniel70 wrote:

[snip]

> "resistor color coding"!! Now there's a flash from the past .....
> 
> Black, Black
> Boys,	Brown 
> Rape,	Red 
> Our, Orange
> Young, Yellow
> Girls, Green
> Blessed, Blue
> Virginity, Violet
> Gone, Grey
> West, White
> 
> The Mnemonic we used back then might not be P.C. today but it worked
> then!!

The first six are the same I learned, although the last four were "But 
Violet Gives Willingly".

BTW, I once saw a clock that used six full-color LEDs (not 7-segment 
displays) to show the time using that color code. At the time I'm writing 
this, its brown-brown:black-violet:orange-white.

-- 
Mark Lloyd
http://notstupid.us/

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