[AT] Names that have become generic

Sun Apr 4 10:02:48 PDT 2004

Charlie,

The FAA examiner who granted me my pilot's license in 1967 seemed to be more
interested in his new-fangled calculator he just got.  It could add,
subtract, multiply and divide all in the same machine!  He thought I should
get one too... for about $600.  It was in two parts, the unit itself and a
power supply to clip to your belt, and the harness to tie them together.
Neither part would fit a shirt pocket.

I decided to wait and hope someday they would be under $100.  :-)

George Willer

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "charlie hill" <chill8 at cox.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2004 12:17 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Names that have become generic

> 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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