> I can't believe you !
> I think you are joking. In 70' it was the same like now:
> mili, micro, nano, pico. Only the gauge was different.

'fraid not - it was mmF when I first encountered capacitors (probably in the
mid to early '60s
But then they were "condensors", not "capacitors".
Note that PROPERLY mmF should be milli-milli-Farad = micro-Farad as we know
it.
But that's a whole other discussion.



                RM




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> regards, Vasile
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>
>
> On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Bob Ammerman wrote:
>
> > I must say I have to think twice when I see caps valued in nF. Where and
> > when  I learned my electronics (in the US, in the 70's) there weren't no
> > such thing as a nF.
> >
> > It is the better way 'tho.
> >
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