[AT] Names that have become generic

[Brian VanDragt]

How many "megacycles per second" (or gigacycles per second) is your computer
processor running?  Ok, thats my last electronics post.  :-)

Brian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dudley Rupert" <drupert at premier1.net>
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Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 10:29 PM
Subject: RE: [AT] Names that have become generic


> Cycles will always be cycles per second (cps) rather than hertz
> (I am in a nit picky mood)
>
> Dudley
> Snohomish, Washington
>
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> From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
> [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com]On Behalf Of Howard R.
> Weeks
> Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 5:26 PM
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> Subject: Re: [AT] Names that have become generic
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>
> To me, they will always be condensers rather than capacitors.
> They were condensers in all the old reference books 20s - 50s.
>
> Cycles will always be cycles rather than hertz.
>
> Howard Weeks
> Harlem, GA
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Larry D. Goss <rlgoss at evansville.net>
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> Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 11:26 PM
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>
> The problem is some of you guys are just too danged young.  You think
> that because you learned a particular name for a device when you were in
> school it must have always been named that.  My dad referred to "those
> things" as condensers when he was discussing electronics with me back in
> the late 40's.  He finally learned to call them capacitors when it
> became politically correct to do so.  That was sometime after he started
> working with transistors in the late 50's.  BTW- Dad never did learn to
> refer to AIEE instead of IEEE.  He called it the "eye triple-E" until
> the day he died.  In the mid-50's we called those things condensers when
>
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