[AT] Names that have become generic

[John Deere]

Dean,  My first  programming was on a Wang, punch cards, broken rubber band 
(high tech solution)  1 week getting them back in order-one of the reasons I 
became a biochemist and just buy the dang programs!

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'" 
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>Subject: RE: [AT] Names that have become generic
>Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 07:50:53 -0800
>
>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
>To: at at lists.antique-tractor.com
>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'"
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> >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
> >
> >
> >-----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' 
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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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