[AT] Names that have become generic

[Steve W.]

You mean as in  AND/NAND OR/NOR and other gates used in TTL and later
CMOS circuits. I recently received a bunch of cards out of an OLD
machine (two chips and approx 100 discrete transistors per board). Makes
me respect the folks who managed to design and fly Apollo equipment with
less computer equipment than a modern calculator.

I still have my Curta sitting here to remind me what state of the art
meant then.... And how truly bad some items are designed and made now..

Steve Williams
Near Cooperstown NY


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dean VP" <deanvp at att.net>
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> 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! I
still
> like analog watches and speedometers. The world is really analog.
>
>
> Dean A. Van Peursem
> Snohomish, WA 98290
>
> CRS = Having a Photographic Memory but a shortage of unused film.
>
> www.deerelegacy.com
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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
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> 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'
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> 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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