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From: Bob Eager <news0002@eager.cx>
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Subject: Re: Revamped PDP-11 in Brooklyn
Date: 27 May 2014 21:20:43 GMT
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On Tue, 27 May 2014 21:34:36 +0100, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:

> On Tue, 27 May 2014 17:47:21 +0100 "gareth" <no.spam@thank.you.invalid>
> wrote:
> 
>> "Ahem A Rivet's Shot" <steveo@eircom.net> wrote in message
>> news:20140527165501.97240f6e0d3e01948da84220@eircom.net...
>> > On Tue, 27 May 2014 16:03:41 +0100 "gareth"
>> > <no.spam@thank.you.invalid> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> <PEDANT>
>> >>     The antennae, the air transducers, use wires
>> >> </PEDANT>
>> >
>> > <PEDANT>
>> > What does air have to do with it ? They work fine in a vacuum.
>> > </PEDANT>
>> >
>> >
>> <PEDANT>
>>      That maybe so, but they're not in a vacuum, they're in the air,
>> which gave rise to the ealier term for antenna which was aerial,
>> derived from aerial wire to distinguish it from the earth wire.
>> </PEDANT>
> 
> 	Older term ? On this side of the pond aerial is current usage.

That depends. I've always used 'antenna'.



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