Degrees of Freedom vs. Hollywood Control Freaks

Mike Rosing eresrch at eskimo.com
Thu Jun 6 13:27:40 PDT 2002


On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Major Variola (ret) wrote:

> Jeezum, how old *are* you?   We haven't called vacuum tubes 'valves' for
> some
> time..  Must get tiresome carting around the Leyden jar condensers for
> your differential
> analyzer..

the Brits have been calling "tubes" "valves" forever.  Just like a "hood"
is a "bonnet".  Has nothing to do with age.

But you do lose the high end first usually :-)

Patience, persistence, truth,
Dr. mike





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