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From: David DeLaney on 26 Apr 2010 06:59 Otto Bahn <Ladybrrane(a)GroinToHell.com> wrote: >"Peter Moylan" <gro.nalyomp(a)retep> wrote ><.The name has become divorced from the etymology. > >Oh, no! We can't have that. That way lies chaos. And "extended adverb" families, and opposite-gender agreement, and eventually person-type endings getting tacked on to animal-type endings! The horror! Dave "not to mention POLYPHONY!" DeLaney -- \/David DeLaney posting from dbd(a)vic.com "It's not the pot that grows the flower It's not the clock that slows the hour The definition's plain for anyone to see Love is all it takes to make a family" - R&P. VISUALIZE HAPPYNET VRbeable<BLINK> http://www.vic.com/~dbd/ - net.legends FAQ & Magic / I WUV you in all CAPS! --K.
From: James Hogg on 26 Apr 2010 13:55 Otto Bahn wrote: > "Peter Moylan" <gro.nalyomp(a)retep> wrote > > <.The name has become divorced from the etymology. > > Oh, no! We can't have that. That way lies chaos. Would you settle for a trial separation? -- James
From: Otto Bahn on 30 Apr 2010 14:30 "James Hogg" <Jas.Hogg(a)gOUTmail.com> wrote >> <.The name has become divorced from the etymology. >> >> Oh, no! We can't have that. That way lies chaos. > > Would you settle for a trial separation? Camel. Toes. Tent. --oTTo--
From: FatBytestard on 30 Apr 2010 14:50
On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:49:39 -0400, "James Silverton" <not.jim.silverton(a)verizon.net> wrote: > John wrote on Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:26:43 -0500: > >>> On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 21:13:55 +0100, Adam Funk <a24061(a)yahoo.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> glen herrmannsfeldt wrote: >>>> >>>>> And when was it that the beach wear started to be called >>>>> flip-flops? >>>>> >>>>> I haven't yet tried to explain to my daughter that when I >>>>> was her age that flip-flops were electronic circuits. >>>> >>> AFAIK, flip-flops were named in the mid-60s... But I'm sure >>> someone older will remember that as even earlier! > >> --- >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flip-flop_(electronics) > > >I read about "flip-flops" in the 50s before my school actually acquired >its first computer. Did they not call them "bi-stable circuits"? I seem >to remember that the circuits described used vacuum tubes or, as we >called them in Britain, "valves". > >I was very enthusiastic about using a computer in my research but had to >wait until 1958 when I went to Cornell. The first two computers that I >used were an IBM 650 and a Burroughs 220 and they both used tubes. Bi and Mono stable multivibrators. |