Seems like I remember a trade magazine editorial many years ago when Hertz was first being used in the US by NASA. This editor was of the opinion that Steinmetz was the first practical user of alternating current systems and thus deserved the honor more than Hertz. Since Steinmetzes was a bit of a mouthful he proposed using only his initials as an abbreviation. Steinmetz was named Charles P. which abbreviated to CPS.
Jim Allan Senior Compliance Engineer Milgo Solutions Inc. E-mail [email protected] > -----Original Message----- > From: Ron Pickard/Hypercom/US [SMTP:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2000 10:09 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Y3K > > > > Hello all, > > Personally, I thought the Y3.doc was fairly clever, even making it > non-readable. Maybe the meeting place is encrypted or coded into the > document? > > Anyway, in waxing nostalgic, I wonder how many of us recall the CPS unit. > :-) > > Best regards, > Ron Pickard > [email protected] > > > > > > > > > > "Ralph > > Cameron" To: > <[email protected]>, "Jon Griver" > <[email protected] <[email protected]> > > et> cc: > <[email protected]> > Sent by: Subject: Re: Y3K > > owner-emc-pst > > [email protected] > > > > > > 01/05/00 > > 03:14 PM > > Please > > respond to > > "Ralph > > Cameron" > > > > > > > > > > Roger, way back in the days of the caveman, 1M ohms = 1000 ohms. Guess > going metric changed everything. > > Ralph Cameron > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[email protected]> > To: "Jon Griver" <[email protected]> > Cc: <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 12:09 PM > Subject: RE: Y3K > > > > > > > > > > Personally I'm still waiting for another 48 years until the Y2K bug > bites! > > > > Aside from its real meaning as degrees Kelvin, capital K was first used > by > the > > computer guys as a de-facto agreed unit for binary thousand (1024) as in > Kbytes. > > Sloppiness by the financial community led to its use there for thousands > of > > dollars, etc. and ignorance by the media has resulted in its general > use. > > Together with the shorthand loved by Americans this has led to Y2K! > > > > However of course the official unit for 1000 has always been lower case > k, > as in > > km, kHz, etc. > > > > Happy Y2k ! (I won't see Y2K!) > > > > Roger > > > > > > > > --------- > > This message is coming from the emc-pstc discussion list. > > To cancel your subscription, send mail to [email protected] > > with the single line: "unsubscribe emc-pstc" (without the > > quotes). For help, send mail to [email protected], > > [email protected], [email protected], or > > [email protected] (the list administrators). > > > > > > > > > --------- > This message is coming from the emc-pstc discussion list. > To cancel your subscription, send mail to [email protected] > with the single line: "unsubscribe emc-pstc" (without the > quotes). For help, send mail to [email protected], > [email protected], [email protected], or > [email protected] (the list administrators). > > > > > > > > --------- > This message is coming from the emc-pstc discussion list. > To cancel your subscription, send mail to [email protected] > with the single line: "unsubscribe emc-pstc" (without the > quotes). For help, send mail to [email protected], > [email protected], [email protected], or > [email protected] (the list administrators). > --------- This message is coming from the emc-pstc discussion list. To cancel your subscription, send mail to [email protected] with the single line: "unsubscribe emc-pstc" (without the quotes). For help, send mail to [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], or [email protected] (the list administrators).
