David wrote... > I don't see any mention of the word "slash". That is an Americanism > like center ;-)
This is just a guess. Early in the 60's, IBM used the "slash" as part of their control language to their OS on the 650, the 360 series, etc. Who amongst us doesn't remember having to put a "slash star" [columns 1 and 2] as the last card in the deck to go into the reader? Who wants to say "virgule askerisk"?! As I recall, the USAF taught me to say "stroke" but I got out of the AF quite a few years ago... like 50! 73, and godotsysin dd star George T Daughters, K6GT CU in the California QSO Party (CQP) October 2-3, 2010 ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
