[AT] Names that have become generic

[Landen Schooler]

Dean VP wrote:
> 
> Dudley:
> 
> I spent a part of my career designing analog computers because they could
> solve certain problems faster than the digital computers then available. But
> it didn't take long for me to convert from analog computers to digital
> computers. Some parts of our lexicon just have to be left behind.  :-)
> 
> I doubt anyone would even know what an analog computer is today!

An abacus?

Landen Schooler
Palmyra, Iowa



 I still
> like analog watches and speedometers. The world is really analog.
> 
> Dean A. Van Peursem
> Snohomish, WA 98290
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
> [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Dudley Rupert
> Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 7:29 PM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> 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
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 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
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] Names that have become generic
> 
> 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>
> To: 'Antique tractor email discussion group' <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 11:26 PM
> Subject: RE: [AT] Names that have become generic
> 
> 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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