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    Default First Commercial Green Laser Pointer

    I just got confirmation that I've located a pic of the first commercial green laser pointer. It was produced in Moscow in 1993 by Laser-Compact Group, and distributed by Laser2000 in Europe and Power Technology here. The ad below shows it, from Photonics Spectra magazine of September, 1994. The ad was also in Laser Focus that month. So now the hunt is on!
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    I can't even imagine how expensive these were. Even in 1990s dollars, I'm quite sure these were well over two grand for a few mW. Probably a lot more!

    As always, a cool bit of history! I hope you can locate one!
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    I worked for a high end commercial AV company in the midwest during the late 80's.

    They sold and rented a red laser pointer that was about 10" long, 4" high, 1.5" wide. The top was clear and had (I think) a small HeNe tube.
    I used to play with them at times. but they were about $800-900 each. You charged them with a wall charger and they didn't last terribly long on the charge, I'm sure the bottom half was battery. I've looked for similar ones for ages and have never seen them anywhere.

    edit: just found a partial pic of something similar - draper "linear 1"

    Wish you the best on finding one of the old green ones.
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    Terrible bugs preventing me from adding pictures. Click image for larger version. 

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    How about this one?Click image for larger version. 

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    Clicking on the picture icon above used to bring up img words in the text. That's gone.
    Managing attachments used to have a button to "add in line". That's gone.

    Look here and you may see what you used: https://sites.google.com/site/vintag...ve/1987---1989
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    Quote Originally Posted by Eidetic View Post
    Terrible bugs preventing me from adding pictures. Click image for larger version. 

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    How about this one?Click image for larger version. 

Name:	Laseronix LR10.jpg 
Views:	14 
Size:	23.7 KB 
ID:	56769

    Clicking on the picture icon above used to bring up img words in the text. That's gone.
    Managing attachments used to have a button to "add in line". That's gone.

    Look here and you may see what you used: https://sites.google.com/site/vintag...ve/1987---1989
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    I just did - it was the laseronix version.

    Thank you.
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