No need to apologise. In fact you are in a sense right as a VERY long
     time ago capacitors used to be know as CONDENSORS.

     When I used to work for Cable and Wireless, they have a training
     college and a museum. In the museum the have some real old telepgraph
     equipment used in the early 1900's for communicating across jungles.
     FYI it was a kind of NRZ morse code thing! But anyway this is where I
     first saw a capacitor called a condensor.

     Also, is anybody familiar with the term 'condensor microphone' that
     used to be on old tape recorders?

     regards,
     SW.


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Subject: Re: To Few Port Pins ????
Author:  pic microcontroller discussion list <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU> at
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Date:    10/10/97 08:24


On Fri, 10 Oct 1997, TONY NIXON 54964 wrote:

> <snip>
> > HC373, 4511, 5 transistors, 6 resistors, 5 diodes and some condensators.
>
>
> In all my years in electronics I've never heard a cap called that....
>
> It must be a new device to control dry joints.
PTM: Sorry, English isn't my native language and sometimes you can see it
:)
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