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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