tom permutt Wrote: > Indeed, "radio set" was once the jargon. Furthermore, it was meant to > suggest that what was being talked about was not a single device but a > collection of devices, mainly tubes, even after radios (sic) were being > sold in single boxes to people not manly enough to build their own.
Ah, it hadn't ocurred to me that "set" in that context meant, well, "set". Makes perfect sense now. That's one of those things that went from making intuitive sense to just being arbitrary. It's sad to see when that happens in language. I'm barely old enough to remember Heathkit. They used to have a store here in LA over in the Mid-Wilshire area. A fun destination when I was a kid. I built an alarm clock and lamp controller but never a radio or television set. -- rudholm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ rudholm's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2980 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24050 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
