[AT] Names that have become generic

[Dudley Rupert]

Dean:

I share your' fondness for the analog world.  During 41 years at Boeing I
experienced the change from the all analog flight deck to the nearly all
digital.  The analog Mach Airspeed Indicators, analog Altimeters and analog
Attitude Director Indicators, to just name a few, were real mechanical
marvels.  I was always impressed when I went on the flight deck of the "old
classic 747."  Even if there was no power on the airplane the display
panels - with the dozens of individual analog indicators - were still
impressive.

The 757/767/777 all have digital flight decks with virtually all digital
computers.  When walking onto these flight decks with no airplane power all
you see is a bunch on blank CRTs/flat panel screens - if you didn't look
down to see the wheel/column/pedals/thrust levers, etc, you might not know
you were in an airplane.

Dudley
Snohomish, Washington

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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.

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Cycles will always be cycles per second (cps) rather than hertz
(I am in a nit picky mood)

Dudley
Snohomish, Washington

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Weeks
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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


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Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 11:26 PM
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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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