[AT] Names that have become generic

[Grant Brians]

Ok, so you and Dean started out in Computers in 1961. I was born in 1959 and
have been using computers since 1962.... Hmm. Oh and I work with them for a
living in addition to using them for Antique Tractor list reading. I think
driving tractor (non-computerized) is what I will do again tomorrow just
like this evening....
     By the way to get back to antique farm machinery, tomorrow I will be
planting with a 1955 Oliver Super77 Diesel and a 1930 something Iron Wheel
John Deere Van Brunt drill.
    Yesterday I was refurbishing 1949 aluminum sprinkler irrigation pipe
originally assembled in San Jose and Milpitas, California that will now be
used for another 50 years probably. Next week I plan to chop the old buoy in
half with the torch and turn it into two planters for my mom. I guess that
just goes to show that many of us on this list like to recycle and reuse and
have liked to do that long before it became politically correct. Of course
there are a lot of people these days who do not get the value of recycling
and reusing, but we do!
              Grant Brians
              Hollister California
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kiser, Rick" <rkiser at islandhospital.org>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 8:42 AM
Subject: RE: [AT] Names that have become generic


> Sounds like you started in computers back when I did, 1961. Those were
> the days when everything that resembled a computer was a Univac.
>
> RickinNW-WA
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dean VP [mailto:deanvp at att.net]
> Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 8:06 PM
> To: 'Antique tractor email discussion group'
> Subject: RE: [AT] Names that have become generic
>
> 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'
> <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
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> AT mailing list
> http://www.antique-tractor.com/mailman/listinfo/at
>
> _______________________________________________
> AT mailing list
> http://www.antique-tractor.com/mailman/listinfo/at
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> AT mailing list
> http://www.antique-tractor.com/mailman/listinfo/at
>
> _______________________________________________
> AT mailing list
> http://www.antique-tractor.com/mailman/listinfo/at