Bill Cornutt wrote:
> I glad you can spell schematics, I sure couldn't.  And no one
> has said for sure if a box with a X in it is used as the symbol
> for a crystal in a schematic.  As you say, not only does the
> insides of a crystal look like a Y with the two little wires
> goint to the crystal, but it operates like a tuning fork.
> So you may be on to sommething here.
>
The typical schematic symbol I see for crystals looks like the symbol
for an unpolarised capacitor with a little box between the plates.  Here
goes an attempt at ASCII art:

     |    |
-----| [] |-----
     |    |
       Y1

The box should be bigger in relation to the "sides", but you get the
idea...

--Matt