[AT] Names that have become generic

Sun Apr 4 09:17:47 PDT 2004

What sort of computers were you boys using in '62?  There weren't any hand
held calculators unitl about 68 and they were hundreds of dollars each to *
/ + - and hold one constant.   The computer science guys I went to college
with in the late 60's were using Univac machines.   They spent most of their
time punching holes in cards and the pile of cards for a simple program was
bigger than a small desktop computer of today.

I just didn't know they let 3 year olds play with those things Grant.

Were we THAT backwards here in NC?   I don't think so.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Grant Brians" <gbrians at hollinet.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2004 2:05 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] Names that have become generic

> 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
> >
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