🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <8601300934.AA08968@ucbvax.berkeley.edu> kitty!larry@SEISMO.CSS.GOV writes:
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>	Just today I found the real answer to a question which has piqued my
>curiosity for many years: What does the `E' and `M' stand for in the term
>``E&M signaling''?  No one - including people I have asked who work for the
>"Bell System" - has ever been able to answer other than "the letters have no
>meaning, but were arbitrary lead designations in a long-forgotten signaling
>system".
>	According to an AT&T Long Lines training manual from the early 1940's
>(which I recently rescued from the trash), the `E' stands for ``Ear'', and the
>`M' stands for ``Mouth''.  Think about it; it actually makes SENSE.

another good one is the original meaning of the tip and ring lines.
funny thing about >ring<, is that it has nothing to do with the ringer in the
phone. the story i got from a telecommunications guru was there once was
a little plug, looked a lot like a coax plug, and the middle (the tip) was
called tip, and the outside (the ring) was called ring.

kind of makes you wonder about terms like UNIX mean :->

curt