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Date: 21 Apr 2025 19:38:36 GMT
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On 21 Apr 2025 16:09:19 GMT, Mark Lloyd wrote:

> 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".

Yes. 

> 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.

That would be an interesting project with a neopixel strip. I think i 
could get a credible brown but black would be a problem.