[AT] Names that have become generic

Dean VP deanvp at att.net
Fri Apr 2 07:50:53 PST 2004


Dana:

I sure do. Holereth cards, IBM Cards, Bit buckets, Digital Equipment
Corporation (DEC), Wang, Scientific Data Systems (SDS) etc, etc .........

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 John Deere
Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 7:20 AM
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Subject: RE: [AT] Names that have become generic

Dean, the you certainly remember punch cards and Wangs!

Dana

SE PA




>From: "Dean VP" <deanvp at att.net>
>Reply-To: Antique tractor email discussion group 
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>To: "'Antique tractor email discussion group'" 
><at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>Subject: RE: [AT] Names that have become generic
>Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 20:06:18 -0800
>
>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
>
>http://members.cox.net/classicweb/email.htm
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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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